You know, I have dropped three expensive pens on the nib. And it just makes you cry when it happens. — Jim Watkins Copy Share Image
I need paper and pen to release my imagination. I can't create on a machine. — Brian Pinkerton Copy Share Image
“Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working!” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I revise like crazy. I start revising before the pen hits the paper. — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army. — Anonymous 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
On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help… — Alain-Rene Lesage 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
I still use felt tip pens for my notes, on a white board that I carry around with me. I am not… — John Motson Copy Share Image
Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
“Perhaps there are people in this world who love their fountain pens with every fiber of their being—and that's very sad. If… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but… — David Brock Copy Share Image
It's an illusion I've noticed before-- words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It only… — Elizabeth Wein 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
Marine Le Pen is more careful than her dad was about saying things like denying the Holocaust, right? But it's the same… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
When women are seen with pen in hand, they are met immediately with shrieks commanding a return to that life of pain… — Arcangela Tarabotti Copy Share Image
I keep two sentimental mementos on my desk to remind me of two favorite men. There is an inkwell that my Uncle… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
What President of the Airline is doing is, he's urging everyone to give up their frequent flyer miles for sick kids... But… — David Cross Copy Share Image
Art is the child of Nature; yes, Her darling child, in whom we trace The features of the mother's face, Her aspect… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
And down the dunes a thousand guns lie crouched,Unseen, beside the flood -Like tigers in some Orient jungle crouchedThat wait and watch… — Henry Timrod Copy Share Image
The smell of factory farms . . . many notice these places only when the odours reach their homes, affecting their own… — Matthew Scully 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
What is the appeal of Trump, really? It's nostalgic: "Make America great again." Like European nationalists, he has a vision of a… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“What has God given you? Moses had a stick, David had a slingshot, and Paul had a pen. Mother Teresa possessed a… — Richard Stearns Copy Share Image
In the recovery movement, they call what I'm talking about letting go and letting God. If you're uncomfortable with the word God,… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The publisher Jeff Johnson, who has offered not a word of explanation to me, has privately told people that he hated every… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
The death of American liberalism as a significant moral force can be traced to the point in when President Bill Clinton signed… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
I do worry that beginning cartoonists could feel somewhat strangled by the increasing critical seriousness comics has received of late and feel,… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image