I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up. — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
There was a small wooden gazebo built out over the water; Isabelle was sitting in it, staring out across the lake. She… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Leo took out a pen and autographed the arm of one of the nymphs. “Narcissus is a loser! He’s so weak, he… — Rick Riordan 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
Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Marine Le Pen seem to have no respect for the institutions that were created after World War… — David Brooks 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
The government sends low-flying helicopters to chase the horses into corrals and then takes them from the plains of the American West… — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
Rejection process is not fun. It's the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Mancil Travis - I have always had a fascination with this character from my hometown. When I put pen to paper to… — Will Kimbrough Copy Share Image
Great ideas are fish in a stream. Your pen/pencil is a spear. If you don't spear them, they'll swim on by. Be… — James Scott Copy Share Image
For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen... together they are more than the sum… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for… — Adam Ant Copy Share Image
It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I take up my own pen again - the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To myself -… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I handed the test in five minutes before the end of the day. Mrs. Baker took it calmly, then reached into her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
When we digital artists talk about painting on the computer, that is exactly what we do. The paints we use are pixels,… — Donald Lambert Copy Share Image
The fact is when I get pissed off about something or something awful has happened, I just say, 'You know what? Thank… — Joss Stone Copy Share Image
The miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New, the miracles of famous men, Jews, Gentiles, or Christians, — then Franklin… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky with the people I've met over the years. Way back in the early '70s I went to [Phil]… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
I think it says wonders about people that can write an entire album, and put out an entire album of great songs.… — Joe Nichols Copy Share Image
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image