Pen Quotes
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People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
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I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.
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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.
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I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.
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I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.
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So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.
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When I'm writing songs, some days the pen just goes. I'm not in charge and I'm almost listening outside of it. That's when I realize that we all have to start looking at life as a gift. It's like listening to a color and believing that these colors have soul mates and once you get them all together the painting is complete.
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Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties.
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To change the world you'll need a pen.
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You may not like my burglar, but please don't damage him.
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A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!
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Go to any Shinto temple in Japan and you'll see it: a simple stand from which hang hundreds of wooden postcard-size plaques with a colorful image on one side and, on the other, densely scribbled Japanese characters in black felt-tip pen, pleas to the gods for help or succor.
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Let me tell you what I look like: pale face, long hair, and a tiny start of a paunch. In addition, an awkward gait, and a cigar in the mouth and a pen in pocket or hand.
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I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
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I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
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Rebecca West can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.
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I wish I were better at… photography. Sometimes it feels like I can’t capture everything with just a pen.
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I can always live by my pen.
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...The simple little words came easily, fitting themselves to the tune that had come out of the harpsichord. It didn't seem to her that she made them up at all. It seemed to her that they flew in from the rose-garden, through the open window, like a lot of butterflies, poised themselves on the point of her pen, and fell off it on to the paper.
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You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
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I hear better with a pen in my hand.
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When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.
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I've been writing since I was 11. But I don't write with a pen, I just sing at the piano with one eye shut like a pirate.
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A pen is different from the pad, the key, moving your fingers across a screen. I like both. I like to work on sketchbooks, big old white sketch paper. I like how that feels, and I like to put different media on it. Then there's the phone, smartphone, iPad: It's the new page, and it's not the same page anymore.
