Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate… — Sinclair Lewis 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
When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to… — Don Roff Copy Share Image
Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
We used pencil when we were small but now we use pens. do u know why? Mistakes in childhood can b erased… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I guess when we're happy, it's easier to go with the flow, and when that happiness or joy is interrupted, that's when… — Jeremy Fisher Copy Share Image
I believe in the rest of the story. I believe there's still ink in the pen… and someday all that's hazy through… — Nichole Nordeman Copy Share Image
I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
I've found that I snack less and concentrate better when I chew on a plastic stirrer - the kind that you get… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The Bible is God's declaratory revelation to man containing the great truths about God, about man, about history, about salvation, and about… — John F Walvoord Copy Share Image
A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I have a real aversion to machines. I write with a pen. Then I read it to someone who writes it onto… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Creativity is absolutely for everyone. I firmly believe this. I think if you're the driest accountant with the plastic pocket pen protector… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, the cowman with trap… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I had gone through several crazy headache bouts, and I realized that part of the reason I was having them was because… — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the poor men from pen to pen,… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
Vulnerability of artists is definitely what makes organizations like PEN necessary because, as I tried to argue, the actual work that writers… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
I'm sure it is," she replied. Her expression turned fierce, making her look far different from the scattered teacher I knew. "But… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen,… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Maybe there's something new that can document an idea quicker, but pen and paper have always been pretty handy for me. — Grant Hart Copy Share Image
The fairy poet takes a sheet Of moonbeam, silver white; His ink is dew from daisies sweet, His pen a point of… — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Lyrical lecture, word architecture, Rap director, the best in my sector. Microphone cool chief, releasin the smooth speech... I get nasty with… — Lord Finesse Copy Share Image
Their silent wounds have speech More eloquent than men; Their tones can deeper reach Than human voice or pen. — William Robert Woodman Copy Share Image
Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but… — David Brock Copy Share Image
I draw rainbows whenever I see them, with my black ink pen. When I have collected enough, I thought I might make… — Jason Polan Copy Share Image
Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
We have Trumpist (ph) tendencies in Europe. Look up Marine Le Pen in France. Look at the Five Star Movement headed by… — Lionel Barber 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
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
![“I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein in the body of American music, it gives me strength as a writer, like I'm dipping my pen into a deep ink well. That's the folk music tradition. Like Pete Seeger said, 'Everyone's a…” quote by Ketch Secor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/216/ketch-secor-28477_american-music_i-enjoy-writing-songs-that-could-have-be_1676687.jpg)
