I'm not asking a poem to carry a lot of rocks in its pockets. Just being an ordinary observer and liver and… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to… — Mary Lou Retton Copy Share Image
Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
We need the historian and philosopher to give us with trenchant pen, the story of our forefathers, and let our soul and… — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg 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
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
Reparations,” said Jem very suddenly, setting down the pen he was holding. Will looked at him in puzzlement. “Is this a game?… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten. They may not have two spondees to rub together but… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I think it's important not to start drawing parallels, for example, between Theresa May, a fairly traditional conservative politician, who's now prime… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When you are telling your story, hold your own ink pen. Don't let anybody else tell your story. — Tracy Martin Copy Share Image
I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a… — Daniela Pestova Copy Share Image
I'm still a soldier, fighting with my pen and paper for peace till the day I cease. — Emmanuel Jal Copy Share Image
The publisher Jeff Johnson, who has offered not a word of explanation to me, has privately told people that he hated every… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
How'd you communicate?" "Paper and pen. Amazing inventions. Anyway, once we were in Buffalo, I led him here. We couldn't figure out… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
When drawing the sun, try to have on hand colored paper, chalk, felt-tip markers, crayons, pencils, ball point pens. You can draw… — Bruno Munari Copy Share Image
I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I'm always the kind of friend or girlfriend who suggests, when there's some cataclysmic problem in the relationship, I'm like, "Well, maybe… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
For poetry, he's past his prime, He takes an hour to find a rhyme; His fire is out, his wit decayed, His… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen,… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
Whatever action we are doing, we should be sure to keep the thought of God alive within. Whenever we sit or get… — Mata Amritanandamayi 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
Thoth, Hermes, the stylus, the palette, the pen, the quill endure, though our books are a floor of smouldering ash under our… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
