Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for… — Adam Ant Copy Share Image
It looked something like a pen wiper and something like a piece of hearth-rug. A second and keener inspection revealed it as… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
To idealize: all writing is a campaign against cliché. Not just clichés of the pen but clichés of the mind and clichés… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun, And some… — Woody Guthrie Copy Share Image
A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Marine Le Pen is more careful than her dad was about saying things like denying the Holocaust, right? But it's the same… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Home has always been wherever I am. I'm not very attached to walls - or people, for that matter - so I've… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Open platforms and experimental amateurs eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros. Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
One thing I ask you to do, you people who have the pen in your hand, allow God to use you so… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I try to write in the morning when I'm working on a novel. You get up, you have breakfast, you read the… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
It happened in New York, April 10th, nineteen years ago. Even my hand balks at the date. I had to push to… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92) — Norma Fox Mazer Copy Share Image
So, I sit at the hotel at night and I think of something that's funny. Or, If the pen is too far… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen, Lives not to please himself, but other men; Is always drudging, wastes his… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our… — David Warlick Copy Share Image
The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
I don't have many superstitions, just dumb things I don't talk about. I will not sign an autograph with a green pen. — Mario Andretti Copy Share Image
If I make the seven oceans ink, if I make the trees my pen, if I make the earth my paper, the… — Kabir Copy Share Image
I smoke too much whether it's going well or badly. After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
He [Barack Obama] might have a pen, and he might have a phone, but what he does not have is the constitutional… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Obviously, Sam is the type of guy that hides behind his pen and pad. I promise you he wouldn't say that to… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Under Obama, our federal tax dollars can now be used to fund abortion all over the world. With the stroke of a… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
“Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be--to me in all events--a terrible thing without books.” — Anonymous 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
One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
If you want to draw comics, you really have to love to draw, as you will be spending many hours sitting down… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
What I love about writing is that you don't need anyone's permission to do it. You can just get up in the… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image