Barbara O'Neal Quotes

At this point, I have more pens and ink than I could possibly use in three lifetimes, but that’s not the point.

Barbara O'Neal

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If we begin to stop spewing the negative and really move into using our voices and our pens and our abilities that we have to reach millions of people to the positive, we can make a difference in the world.

Stevie Wonder
- People
- World
- Stop
I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen, writing things down.

Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
- Writing
- Lost
- Shows
One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.

Virginia Woolf
A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.

Friedrich Nietzsche
- Book
- Nowadays
- Ink
For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins Shall forth at vast of night that they may work All exercise on thee. Thou shalt be pinched As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging Than bees that made 'em.

William Shakespeare
- Night
- Exercise
- Pens
None of us older writers had gone through such a school. We are all self-taught. And, of course, there is always, in such a school, the danger of goose-stepping, uniformed ranks. But the Serapion Brethren have already, it seems to me, outgrown this danger. Each of them has his own individuality and his own handwriting. The common thing they have derived from the studio is the art of writing with ninety-proof ink, the art of eliminating everything that is superfluous, which is, perhaps, more difficult than writing.

Yevgeny Zamyatin
- Writing
- Art
- Studio