Pen Quotes
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No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.
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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 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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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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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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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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To change the world you'll need a pen.
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A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!
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You may not like my burglar, but please don't damage him.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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Rebecca West can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.
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I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
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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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I wish I were better at… photography. Sometimes it feels like I can’t capture everything with just a pen.
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When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.
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I can always live by my pen.
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I hear better with a pen in my hand.
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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.
