Best My Pen Quotes
80 My Pen quotes by 67 unique authors
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I like things to be orderly. For seven years I ate at Bob's Big Boy. I would go at 2:30, after the lunch rush. I…
— David
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I know I draw without taking my pen off the page. I just keep going, and that my drawings I think of them as scribbles.…
— Frank Gehry
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But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.
— Laurence Sterne
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When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas flowed out. My…
— Regina Brett
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Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm,…
— Anne Fadiman
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When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include…
— David McCullough
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I can always live by my pen.
— Jane Austen
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
— Abigail Adams
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If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
— Victor Hugo
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I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.
— Jonathan Carroll
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And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I…
— Graham Greene
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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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 old aqueducts: there’s…
— Gustave Flaubert
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The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There…
— Machado de Assis
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I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence.
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
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Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and hours of it,…
— Laurence Sterne
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My pen shall heal, not hurt.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen,…
— Virginia Woolf
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My pen.’ Funny, I wrote that without noticing. ‘The torch’, ‘the paper’, but ‘my pen’. That shows what writing means to me, I guess. My…
— John Marsden
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But when I took up my pen, my hand made big, jerky letters like those of a child, and the lines sloped down the page…
— Sylvia Plath
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When I have fears that I may ceace to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teaming brain".
— John Keats
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I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.
— A. S. Byatt
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I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me, unable to lift my pen,…
— Susan Hill
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I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.
— David Almond
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When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charactery, Hold like…
— John Keats
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