Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six, and with… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Let us pick up our books and our pens,” I said. “They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
For me taking a pragmatic decision when it comes to art is almost an oxymoron. The reason I first picked up a… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
It's always pressure to take a pen, doesn't matter if it's against City, or another team. It's always pressure to take the… — Bruno Fernandes Copy Share Image
If you truly are going to be a writer, there must be somewhere within you the drive, the desire, to put pen… — Kaye Dacus 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
And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Writing without words? Its not easy, I tell you! I stab the pen into my heart and let the blood flow. No… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mancil Travis - I have always had a fascination with this character from my hometown. When I put pen to paper to… — Will Kimbrough Copy Share Image
I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no… — Daniil Kharms Copy Share Image
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody… — Jane Austen 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
I do not know how bad a life has to break in order to kill. I have never been so hungry that… — Suheir Hammad Copy Share Image
The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Before I even put pen to paper, in any sense, I'm like, "What's the coolest MacGuffin you can come up with? What… — Paul Scheuring Copy Share Image
There's no point going to a country which is torturing people to ask them to stop if they can point out that… — Salman Rushdie 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
I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen, Or that eternal want of pence, Which vexes public men. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced. — Gaston Bachelard 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
The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation.… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
His eyes, I’d long since discovered, could be as eloquent and expressive as his pen. The messages they sent me now hardly… — Richelle Mead 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
Most times, your blessings are also your curses. And for me, I have this ability to express myself so clearly with pen… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to… — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Butterflies doing strange things in very beautiful ways were in my mind when I sat down, but by the time my pen… — William Beebe Copy Share Image
I used to steal pens at the store. Back in the day when you would write checks, I would write a check… — Rich Fulcher Copy Share Image
I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen,… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one… — John Fante Copy Share Image
Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
My bag hit the floor, spilling overpriced books and pens across the shiny floor. My pens! My glorious pens rolled everywhere. — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
I sometimes wish desperately that I could write like someone else, be someone else. No one particularly. Just if I could put… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
The musings are the same I believe the fire to create burns so heavily that I am never far from a guitar… — Shelby Lynne Copy Share Image
But our wounds are part of who we are...and there is nothing left to chance…And pain's the pen that writes the songs…That… — Michael Card Copy Share Image
Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image