Firsts Quote by Nicholson Baker

Early human thought proceeded by metaphor,

— Gerald Edelman

“I clench my teeth and push forward. My pen grinds out the first and eldest word: an Ink-borne lance of black fire, scratched into…

— S.G. Night

“Your pen must not only create words, it must carve a story into something touching human or beyond.”

— Nyhterides

“Maybe we invented metaphor as a response to pain. Maybe we needed to give shape to the opaque, deep-down pain that evades both sense…

— John Green

“And, see, those metaphors – 'up front' and 'out in the open' – are part of a system we call atavistic purism. AP implies…

— Jennifer Egan

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

— Anonymous

“Polyphiloprogenitive The sapient sutlers of the Lord Drift across the window-panes. In the beginning was the Word. In the beginning was the Word. Superfetation…

— T.S. Eliot

“As William Bouwsma pointed out, the late medieval and early Renaissance crises of representation did not stall out at their skepticism of the old…

— Lori Branch

“We let ourselves loose on that simple blank piece of paper, and our bodies spill. The terror, the love…embodying our stories page after page.…

— Jamie Weise

“A pen is not just a writing instrument, it's an object of creation.”

— Ayanda Xaba

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

— Robert Morgan

The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the mind and…

— Washington Irving