The Greek word pseudepigrapha is a Greek word meaning 'falsely superscribed,' or what we moderns might call writing under a pen name.… — Craig A. Evans Copy Share Image
There is a long tradition in China for writers and journalists to take pen names, partly as protection from retaliation by authorities.… — Michael Anti Copy Share Image
The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
As I lay down my pen, let me record my immovable conviction that this is the noblest service in which any human… — John Gibson Paton Copy Share Image
“When Church and State are separate, the effects are happy, and they do not at all interfere with each other; but where… — Isaac Backus Copy Share Image
If belief in the miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New is required to make a man religious, then Franklin… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
When I'm writing [songs], some days the pen just goes. I'm not in charge and I'm almost listening outside of it. That's… — Prince Copy Share Image
I know I draw without taking my pen off the page. I just keep going, and that my drawings I think of… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I think I write honestly about what goes on in a guy’s mind, and girls are interested in that. As a sex,… — Gary Lightbody Copy Share Image
Set an intention to heal any unexpressed anger that may be present in your life. Go to a quiet place with pen… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Whales, like elephants, are so social and intelligent. This hurts me to think of them being transported, put in noisy airplanes, and… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Finally, if you want to write, you have to just shut up, pick up a pen, and do it. I'm sorry there… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“He chuckled, shaking his head. "Man, you hunters. I break a pencil and there's hell to pay." "I can see how that's… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
You gave me Christopher Robin, and then You breathed new life in Pooh. Whatever of each has left my pen Goes homing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I'm proud of the fact that Marine Le Pen in France insults me and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands calls me his… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
I've got a pen, and I've got a phone, and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Charlie Hebdo mocked everyone. They mocked the left. They mocked the right. They mocked, above all, the extreme right, the extreme right… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
I could buy myself paper, a pen, a pencil and a brush and could create pictures whenever and wherever I wanted. ...… — Peter Weiss Copy Share Image
I write exclusively using computers. Pens and typewriters can fsck right off - I wrote my first half million words in my… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine the… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins Shall forth at vast of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When I started writing, I didn't have the common sense to use a pseudonym, so I write under my own name. If… — Nicola Cornick Copy Share Image
The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Recollect that to a woman who gets her living by her pen, 'time is money,' as it is to an artist. Therefore,… — Eliza Leslie Copy Share Image
Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Ireland is a wonderful place to write in. Even although the atmosphere was so Faith-laden that I was often worried that I… — Nancy Spain Copy Share Image
Sorrow, it is said, will make even an oyster feel poetical. I never tried my hand at that sort of writing but… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have… — Frank Yerby 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
People who draw tend to think they're craftsmen, so they really want to hang onto their pens and papers, but it's not… — Makoto Shinkai 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