Accents Quote by David Sedaris

“Both possessing remarkably rich southern drawls, words loitered on their tongues like drunken drifters when they spoke.”

— Jeffrey Stepakoff

“At the next bend I had a brisk argument with two fat peasant ladies, balancing baskets of fruit on their heads, who were wildly…

— Gerald Durrell

“I was a tongue, a gazette. The bearer of "the truth of the whispers." I knew of hollowed books, trunks with false bottoms, and…

— Eva Stachniak

“Reading was what I needed to beat back all that noise and silence, those horrible silences. . . .An ink pen was the only…

— Anonymous

“He slipped her the inkwell. "This one is full of forbidden, outlawed words," he whispered. "Make sure you clean your pen when you're done.”

— T.R. Darling

“I used to take my morning tea at her kiosk and I took an interest in what she was doing. I later learnt she…

— Stanley Gazemba

“Mary Jane she set at the head of the table, with Susan alongside of her, and said how bad the biscuits was, and how…

— Mark Twain

“Mrs. Porter was from Virginia and had a smooth-as-cat-fur way of speaking. She taught me how to say, “Fiddle-Dee-Dee,” just like Scarlett O’Hara and…

— Shannon Celebi

“The woman clearly didn't like me or the pen I wrote with.”

— Penny Pike

“seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“We who hold the pen... and like bricks we use our words... how stupid of us... how naive... to even think for a second...…

— unauthor

“An increasing cackle of complaints, orders, and jests, and what to a European would have been bad language, came from behind the curtains. Here…

— Rudyard Kipling