A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I keep a picture of my beloved children close by. Also, water and plenty of pads and pens. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I have suffered, like other writers, from indolence, irresolution, distaste to my work, absence of 'inspiration,' and all that: but I have… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a… — Rumi Copy Share Image
There are days now where I think, "Oh man, that would've been a great entry," but I'm putting the pen down until… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest… — Rita Zahara Copy Share Image
Write, if you must; not otherwise. Do not write, if you can earn a fair living at teaching or dressmaking, at electricity… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
End production today. Wrap party as usual a little sad. Slow danced with Scarlett. Broke her toe. Not my fault. When she… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a real aversion to machines. I write with a pen. Then I read it to someone who writes it onto… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I like things to be orderly. For seven years I ate at Bob's Big Boy. I would go at 2:30, after the… — David Copy Share Image
I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence. — Anonymous 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
The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes. Then there is… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
My pen is alight and my body aflame. Until both burn down to ash, my love and my hate will remain here… — Ba Jin 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
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
Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy… — William Blake Copy Share Image
God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips, acts with a hand that never fails — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“These reasonings will furnish us with an adequate definition of a true critic: that he is a discoverer and collector of writers’… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons. — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
