Pens Quotes - Page 15

• To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness.

  Winston Churchill

  Morning, Nice, White

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• If he [the Artist] were to take up the pen it would be...to better express his individuality and explain it to others; or else to put his internal affairs in order...to deepen and sharpen his relationship with his fellow men because other souls exert an immense and creative influence on our soul; or to try to fight for a world as he would like it to be, for a world that is indispensable to his life.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Fighting, Artist, Men

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• A sudden cloud formation of birds was swallowed up by the moon, and he was just as suddenly penned in by four walls-the demons' pen.

  Mo Yan

  Wall, Moon, Clouds

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• Read him slowly, dear girl, you must read Kipling slowly. Watch carefully where the commas fall so you can discover the natural pauses. He is a writer who used pen and ink. He looked up from the page a lot, I believe, stared through his window and listened to birds, as most writers who are alone do. Some do not know the names of birds, though he did. Your eye is too quick and North American. Think about the speed of his pen. What an appalling, barnacled old first paragraph it is otherwise.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Girl, Fall, Believe

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.94, Vintage

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• 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 ready.

  James Scott

  Ideas, Swim, Streams

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• I am hopelessly divided between the dark and the good, the rebel and the saint, the sex maniac and the monk, the poet and the priest, the demagogue and the populist. Pen to paper, I put it all down - I'm out on a limb here, so watch my back.

  Billy Idol

  Sex, Heart, Dark

  "Billy Idol: The Story of My Drug-Fueled Recording of 'Dancing with Myself'" by Billy Idol, www.esquire.com. October 3, 2014.

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• Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can paint or pen describe, I cannot refrain from expressing my raptures, at the engaging Qualities of your Mind, which so amply atone for the Horror, with which your first appearance must ever inspire the unwary visitor.

  Jane Austen

  Imagination, Inspire, Lovely

  Jane Austen (2016). “Sanditon, Lady Susan, & The History of England: The Juvenilia and Shorter Works of Jane Austen”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• But what a little I can get down into my pen of what is so vivid to my eyes, and not only to my eyes; also to some nervous fibre, or fanlike membrane in my species.

  Virginia Woolf

  Eye, Littles, Vivid

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4389, Delphi Classics

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• I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a fountain pen, a Parker fountain pen, and I loved it, and I've never liked writing anything with pencils or ball-points.

  Tony Kushner

  Writing, Bars, Balls

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• When someone takes away your pens you realise quite how important education is.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Important, Realising

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• The best way to fight terrorism is not through guns. It's through pens, books, teachers and schools.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Teacher, Book, School

  Malala Fund @MalalaFund, twitter.com. October 11, 2013.

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• I'm not asking a poem to carry a lot of rocks in its pockets. Just being an ordinary observer and liver and feeler and letting the experience get through you onto the notebook with the pen, through the arm, out of the body, onto the page, without distortion.

  Sharon Olds

  Notebook, Rocks, Pockets

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• I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.

  Helmut Newton

  Wings, People, Lasts

  "Photo". Book by Graphis Incorporated, 2005.

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• Nas is one of the Greatest Ever. Never has and never will need a ghostwriter. That man’s pen and legacy is without question.

  Jay Electronica

  Men, Legacy, Needs

  "The Nas Controversy and Why Rappers Are Afraid of Ghostwriters". www.complex.com. August 17, 2012.

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• Even the most deft pen is a clumsy tool.

  Alex Ebert

  Tools, Clumsy

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• For poetry, he's past his prime,
  He takes an hour to find a rhyme;
  His fire is out, his wit decayed,
  His fancy sunk, his muse a jade.
  I'd have him throw away his pen,
  But there's no talking to some men.

  Jonathan Swift

  Past, Men, Fire

  Matthew Prior, Jonathan Swift (1853). “Select poems of Prior and Swift [ed. by C. Bathurst].”, p.155

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• To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Kings, War, Mean

  Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley (1967). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet”, p.15, Harvard University Press

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• I want to trace my father, could you suggest a good marker pen?

  Frankie Boyle

  Father, Want, Markers

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• I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday.

  Nelson DeMille

  Writing, Names, Someday

  Talk City Network Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. 2000.

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• As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors. I love to hike, kayak, and swim. I also love to read (which is probably not a surprise) and I love the theater and art museums. I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love to mess around with these tools and objects, I have minimal artistic skills.

  Sharon Creech

  Art, Book, Museums

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• I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Giving, Mind, Paper

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• As I lay down my pen, let me record my immovable conviction that this is the noblest service in which any human being can spend or be spent; and that, if God gave me back my life to be lived over again, I would without one quiver of hesitation lay it on the altar to Christ, that He might use it as before in similar ministries of love, especially amongst those who have never yet heard the Name of Jesus.

  John Gibson Paton

  Jesus, Son, Might Use

  "John G. Paton: Missionary to the New Hebrides".

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• I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Believe, Book, Taken

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• I think I write honestly about what goes on in a guy’s mind, and girls are interested in that. As a sex, we’re not the best communicators when it comes to talking to the women in our lives. I know I’m not – but I’m much better when I have a pen and paper in my hand.

  Gary Lightbody

  Girl, Sex, Writing

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• So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem the historian is bound to recite, that may the poet, if he list, with his imitation make his own, beautifying it both for further teaching and more delighting, as it pleaseth him; having all, from Dante’s Heaven to his Hell, under the authority of his pen.

  Philip Sidney

  War, Teaching, Heaven

  Sir Philip Sidney, Thomas Babington Macaulay (2010). “English Essays: From Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

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