Because most of the girls were still in mourning and all of them had lost their textbooks, even pencils and pens, Shaukat… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
I am one of those authors who consider it their highest honour and their highest liberty to have a completely untrammelled chance… — Mikhail Sholokhov Copy Share Image
The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I write my songs usually while I'm walking around. Or in a car. Or in a bus, a plane, something like that.… — Joshua Radin Copy Share Image
I've always liked language and been a big reader. I always loved books as objects. My favorite time of year as a… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
The middle years - the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties - were a time of moral bankruptcy when men stole millions by a stroke… — Frank Yerby Copy Share Image
But when I took up my pen, my hand made big, jerky letters like those of a child, and the lines sloped… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I think all writing is political. All writing shows a preoccupation with something, whatever that thing might be, and by putting pen… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
My clothes are most comfortable as well as practical. I wear navy blue slacks and a long sleeve shirt topped with my… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
My mind's monumental, my pen is penetration That produce words that bleed on the pad like menstruation — Elzhi Copy Share Image
Bury me smilin' with G's in my pocket, Have a party at my funeral let every rapper rock it Let the hoes… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
I received the Media for Liberty Award from Swedish PEN, and the prize was awarded by the Swedish minister of culture, who… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
There is no one kind of thing that we 'perceive' but many different kinds, the number being reducible if at all by… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
The way to elegancy of style is to employ your pen upon every errand; and the more trivial and dry it is,… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
