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A theatre is not a blank page for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a conscience that wakes with what is happening in the space, and wakes further still in response to what people are making of it.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: Blank Blank Page Conscience Editorial Further Happening Making Page People Response Space Still System Theatre Wakes

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It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: About Blank Blank Page Days Down Five Grace Include Just Laying Me Page Reading Research Teaching Those Three Took Two Week Words Working Would Write Years

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One must go for a film with an open mind; a film best impacts you when your mind is a blank page to the film.

~Anurag Kashyap

Topics: Best Blank Blank Page Film Go Impacts Mind Must Open Open Mind Page You Your

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Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page.

~Athol Fugard

Topics: About Alone Asleep Assault Blank Blank Page Brainstorm Day Family Last Next Page Plan Strategy Thing Think Writing I Think

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As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.

~Barry Jenkins

Topics: Always Blank Blank Page Does Hell Humble Out Page Will Writer You

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I have a horror of the blank page. I simply cannot write on a blank page or screen. Because once I do, I start to fix it, and I never get past the first sentence.

~Charles Krauthammer

Topics: Because Blank Blank Page Cannot First Fix Get Horror Never Once Page Past Screen Sentence Simply Start Write

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There's a reason poets often say, 'Poetry saved my life,' for often the blank page is the only one listening to the soul's suffering, the only one registering the story completely, the only one receiving all softly and without condemnation.

~Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Topics: Blank Blank Page Condemnation Life Listening My Life Often Only Page Poetry Poets Reason Receiving Saved Say Softly Soul Story Suffering Without

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I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

~Dan Brown

Topics: Blank Blank Page Books Care Characters Christmas Days Every Face Get How Including Many Morning Page Really Seven Sold Still Up Week Write I Write

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Constant rejection. No security. Career paths being dictated by freelance reviewers. And of course, the terror of the writing desk, of the blank page. Why is it so hard for our non-writer friends to understand this - that it's a job?

~Darin Strauss

Topics: Being Blank Blank Page Career Constant Course Desk Dictated Freelance Friends Hard Job Our Page Paths Rejection Reviewers Security Terror Understand Why Writing

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I found, after the experience of making 'Shaun Of The Dead' and then returning to the blank page - because 'Shaun Of The Dead' was the first screenplay I ever wrote properly - the experience of returning to the blank page and having nothing in the drawer was intensely painful.

~Edgar Wright

Topics: After Because Blank Blank Page Dead Drawer Ever Experience First Found Having Intensely Making Nothing Page Painful Properly Returning Screenplay Then Wrote

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