Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the right to invade Nazi Germany and, today, has the right to invade Soviet… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Everyone has access to a pen and paper, but to be a great writer is difficult. — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I've never considered soundtracks for what I write. Nor have I considered computer drawing or painting. As a painter, I'm still trying… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Take the gesture, the action of writing. I have an almost obsessive relation to writing instruments. I often switch from one pen… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones… — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a… — John Clayton Copy Share Image
I also felt guilty about the three pens I'd stolen, but only for a second. And since there was no convenient way… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk. — Christopher Smart Copy Share Image
Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Vulnerability of artists is definitely what makes organizations like PEN necessary because, as I tried to argue, the actual work that writers… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself to be a painter. I think of myself as someone who has used the medium of painting in… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
With feelings of gratitude for all that is good in this world, I put down my pen. Well, I'll be leaving now. — Satoshi Kon Copy Share Image
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Reaching deep into the heart of the reader, Cindy Woodsmall pens a beautifully lyrical story in her debut novel When the Heart… — Tamera Alexander Copy Share Image
I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
I become one of those people who walks alone in the dark at night while others sleep or watch Mary Tyler Moore… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me, unable to… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question. — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image