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
When I take up my pen to write, I feel the strength of standing up and refusing to be silent. In an… — Chenjerai Hove Copy Share Image
Men=earthbound creatures, living in communities, endowed with common sense, sensus communis, a community sense; not autonomous, needing each other’s company even for… — Hannah Copy Share Image
In those days, we imagined ourselves as being kept in some kind of holding pen, waiting to be released into our lives.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I jack, I rob, I sin. Aw man, I'm Jackie Robinson 'Cept when I run base, I dodge the pen — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
The hand of bone and sinew and flesh achieves its immortality in taking up a pen. The hand on a page wields… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
The change which the writing wrought in me (and of which I did not write) was only a beginning; only to prepare… — Anonymous 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
Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
You take the pen, and the lines dance. You take the flute and the notes shimmer. You take the brush, and the… — Dag Hammarskjold 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
“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
There is a movement happening, a quiet one. A low-profile, low-resolution revolution. Comprised of writers and dreamers, of guerrilla artists and thought-ninjas.… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page. They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day. Dreams are only… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The story, I like to say and remember, is always smarter than you—there will be patterns of theme, image, and idea that… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
[E]very plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dénouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a… — Ida Rentoul Outhwaite Copy Share Image
We exist to exhibit God, to display his glory. We serve as canvases for his brush stroke, papers for his pen, soil… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
If you look at the funding of far-right parties in Europe - where's the money coming? We do know that 9 million… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
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
Luck is always waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, always turns up something. Luck lies… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
I'm not formal and I'm impatient. So I think my team would say that when she starts tapping her pen and the… — Anne M. Mulcahy Copy Share Image
Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling; Bringing to light and use, else… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
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