The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it? — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
“They scribble on notepads, the sound of their pens scratching the judgemental air.” — Emma Cameron Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made. — Aristide Briand Copy Share Image
The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Seeds, there are seeds enough which need only be stirred in with the soil where they lie, by an inspired voice or… — Henry David Thoreau 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
With taxes, if they aren't working right, we can change them with a stroke of the pen. It's basically a market-type mechanism.… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
She says there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
How can I describe how much I love you? Is it even possible to describe a love like that? I don’t know,… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world. So far… — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image
A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the… — William Allingham Copy Share Image
O white-robed Angel, guide my timorous hand to write as on a lofty rock with iron pen the words of truth, that… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I hear it still. As I lay down my pen and take to my bed, I am aware of the bow being… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity. If you can… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
It happened in New York, April 10th, nineteen years ago. Even my hand balks at the date. I had to push to… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Home has always been wherever I am. I'm not very attached to walls - or people, for that matter - so I've… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Open platforms and experimental amateurs eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros. Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Where some may see flat, static narratives, I see a spectrum of tonal gradations and realities. What I am creating is literally… — Toyin Odutola Copy Share Image
Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
It seems like I always wrote, I just didn't think of it as a career choice. I just liked to tell stories… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
I don't have a favorite cooking tool. In the kitchen, I always have my pencil and notebook in my hand. I cook… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
Eternity.Thy name Or glad, or fearful, we pronounce, as thoughts Wandering in darkness shape thee. Thou strange being, Which art and must… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
As I lay down my pen, let me record my immovable conviction that His is the noblest service in which any human… — John Gibson Paton Copy Share Image
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please. — Mother Jones Copy Share Image
I got a voodoo doll every time I pen a verse: Not only do they say they feel it, but they say… — Pusha T 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
Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Of all cold words of tongue or pen, the worst are these: "I knew him when - — Arthur Guiterman Copy Share Image
When someone takes away your pens you realise quite how important education is. — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper. — James Robertson Copy Share Image
