“The experience of returning to the blank page and having nothing in the drawer was intensely painful. I just thought, I never want that to happen again.”

“My printer printed off blank pages. Is my printer out of ink, or do I just have nothing to say?”

“... I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page.”

“Do not limit yourself to your own preconceptions of yourself, but throw yourself out onto a blank page that you haven't written on yet, and see what you find out about you, see what story unfolds, see what happens! I always do this, and sometimes it can be very frightening! To very often have a blank page with nothing written on it yet! I feel as though I am a soul with a single covering–my body of skin– and that's the only thing between me on the inside and the rest of the world! It's quite frightening to begin each day on a blank page, forgetting your own preconceptions of yourself and allowing your mind to embrace the new! It is like meeting yourself for the first time, over and over again!”

“As I stare at the blank page, I am at once awash inwords but unable to find the ones I want to use.”

“I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.”