To idealize: all writing is a campaign against cliché. Not…

I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our…

— Brian Reade

A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself…

— Jean de la Bruyere

When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered…

— Naomie Harris

When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when…

— Hilary Mantel

The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten.

— Bob Dylan

Trust me, I did not set out to establish three pen names and, for the record, I do not recommend it as a career…

— Jayne Ann Krentz

Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

— Voltaire

I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

— Honore de Balzac

The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.

— Janet Malcolm

With taxes, if they aren't working right, we can change them with a stroke of the pen. It's basically a market-type mechanism. People make…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

Do not borrow the productions of other men's brains and pens and recite them as a lesson; but make the most of the talents,…

— Ellen G. White

A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I was taking all prints and I brought them to the Magnum meetings, trying the old Josef Koudelka trick: Give them to photographers, who…

— Peter van Agtmael

For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing these things…

— William Gibson

I see how complicated it is to make a film and how many people are involved and I love the fact that I get…

— Markus Zusak