“It's embarrassing, how much effort it took for me to wear something that looks exactly like a blank piece of paper.”
“Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled with ideas. Now all I see is a blank piece of paper”
“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”
“A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.”
“It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.”
“It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again.”