British history Quote by A. J. P. Taylor

“One of the jurors had a pencil that squeaked. This of course, Alice could not stand, and she went round the court and got…

— Lewis Carroll

The handwriting was a girl’s. I mean, you can tell. That enchanted cursive.

— Rachel Cohn

“But the period I studied -- the rollicking eighteenth century engraved by Hogarth -- was the one that saw the birth of America, of…

— Erica Jong

“Yet even when they were freed from the practical impediments imposed upon their sex, they could not write because they had no tradition to…

— Virginia Woolf

“In the act of writing he experiences, today, an exceptional sensual pleasure -- in the feel of the pen, snug in the crook of…

— J.M. Coetzee

“She’d already scanned every word a hundred times, absorbing every nuance in gradation and every stray mark of her mother’s pen—from the depth of…

— Laekan Zea Kemp

“He had written in cheap ballpoint ink that had blotted the five pages in many places. His handwriting was a looping but legible scrawl,…

— Stephen King

“He slipped her the inkwell. "This one is full of forbidden, outlawed words," he whispered. "Make sure you clean your pen when you're done.”

— T.R. Darling

“There was a girl, and her uncle sold her, wrote Mr. Ibis in his perfect copperplate handwriting. That is the tale; the rest is…

— Neil Gaiman

“this is not the first time that intimidation by typewriter has caused me to consider the pen.”

— Tom Robbins

“But she had to write. And one letter to the Times, she used to say to Miss Brush, cost her more than to organise…

— Virginia Woolf

“The woman clearly didn't like me or the pen I wrote with.”

— Penny Pike