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“If we do not determine to aspire to that which we write about, we should rid ourselves of every single sheet of paper and…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

A blank page of paper and a pen is the greatest invention its so exciting to be confronted by possibility.

— Nicky Wire

This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.

— Peter Greenaway

“And the day inevitably comes when the scrapbook of summer, smeared with ice cream slurps and sweat stains, gives way to that new clean…

— Toni Sorenson

“Pen, ink, and paper are cold vehicles for the marvellous, and a "reader" decidedly a more critical animal than a "listener.”

— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

“Whether written in the stars of the pages of a journal, a dream still blossoms from the heart of the person who possesses the…

— Rhonda Laurel

Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers…

— Joseph Brodsky

“I have often believed the pen to be a needle, and ink to be a thread. Each story is an intricately woven tapestry and…

— Shaun Hick

I think now, whenever I write, there is nothing that will really compare to pen and paper.

— Bishop Briggs

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

— Petrarch

“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he…

— Orhan Pamuk

In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a…

— Aubrey Beardsley