Thoughtcrime is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death…

“He was already dead, he reflected. It seemed to him that it was only now, when he had begun to be able to formulate…

— George Orwell

Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.

— George Orwell

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 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