Writers throughout the ages have one weapon, which is literature, but they also have their responsibilities as a citizen when literature does… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
The concept of absolute, hence (or whence) springs, in the moral field, the moral laws or norms, represent, in the field of… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My mind's my 9, my pen's my Mac-10. My target? All you wack niggaz who started rappin'. — The Notorious B.I.G Copy Share Image
We danced our youth in a dreamed of city, Venice, paradise, proud and pretty, We lived for love and lust and beauty,… — Veronica Franco Copy Share Image
I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
What do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
We don't need someone who can think. We need someone with enough digits to hold a pen. — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Read him slowly, dear girl, you must read Kipling slowly. Watch carefully where the commas fall so you can discover the natural… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Gossip, public, private, social - to fight against it either by word or pen seems, after all, like fighting with shadows. Everybody… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Art is the child of Nature; yes, Her darling child, in whom we trace The features of the mother's face, Her aspect… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Trump is a hybrid phenomenon as I see it. He is somewhat like UKIP and Le Pen with his right-wing populism that… — John Bellamy Foster Copy Share Image
It is not permitted to a man, who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard. — Judah Halevi Copy Share Image
if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Let me tell you what I look like: pale face, long hair, and a tiny start of a paunch. In addition, an… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In 2012, the far-right Golden Dawn won 21 seats in Greece's parliamentary election, the right-wing Jobbik gained ground in my native Hungary,… — George Soros Copy Share Image
i keep drinking the ink from my pen and i'm balancing history books up on my head but it all boils down… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
When Bugs Bunny walks into rehab, people are going to turn and look. People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens… — Eminem Copy Share Image
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
