Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Did you know the pen is stronger than the knife: they can kill you once but they can't kill you twice. — Damian Marley Copy Share Image
“When I started writing I wanted the best tools. I skipped right over chisels on rocks, stylus on wet clay plates, quills… — John Varley Copy Share Image
My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When people ask me for an autograph I usually ask for a pen and then stab them with it. — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
I always had the urge to write. Not in the sense of wanting to be a writer, but just writing things down,… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in! — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Leopards break into the temple and drink all the sacrificial vessels dry; it keeps happening; in the end, it can be calculated… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
My books flow. People say they pick them up and they can't put them down. It's because when I'm writing them I… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen,… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they… — Alan King 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
I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Now stand you on the top of happy hours, And many maiden gardens yet unset, With virtuous wish would bear you living… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Traveling takes the ink out of one's pen as well as the cash out of one's purse. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The optimist in me wants to believe sexuality will eventually become like handwriting: there’s no right way and wrong way to do… — Jodi Picoult 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
You've got to find a difierent approach. You've got to create some interest in your language, in the words and pictures you… — Roger Ailes Copy Share Image
A sudden cloud formation of birds was swallowed up by the moon, and he was just as suddenly penned in by four… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
