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• Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.

  Marlo Thomas

  Doors, Paper, Fame

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• I come from a stupid family. My father worked in a bank. They caught him stealing pens.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Stupid, Father

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• My Lord, I have nothing to do in this World, but to seek and serve thee; I have nothing to do with a Heart and its affections, but to breathe after thee. I have nothing to do with my Tongue and Pen, but to speak to thee, and for thee, and to publish thy Glory and thy Will. What have I to do with all my Reputation, and Interest in my Friends, but to increase thy Church, and propagate thy holy Truth and Service? What have I to do with my remaining Time, even these last and languishing hours, but to look up unto thee, and wait for thy Grace, and thy Salvation?

  Richard Baxter

  Heart, Waiting, Grace

  Richard Baxter (1817). “The saints' everlasting rest; The divine life; and Dying thoughts; also, A call to the unconverted; and Now or never. Carefully revised”, p.993

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• There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

  Magic, Ink, Bottles

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• I guess when we're happy, it's easier to go with the flow, and when that happiness or joy is interrupted, that's when we get contemplative and break out the guitar or pen and write about it.

  Jeremy Fisher

  Writing, Guitar, Joy

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• A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Writing, Office

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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 these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

  David McCullough

  Husband, Grief, Writing

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• I can always live by my pen.

  Jane Austen

  Live By, I Can

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• My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

  Abigail Adams

  Women, Losing A Loved One, Heart

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.90, UPNE

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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

  Break, Ifs

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• She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

  Henry James

  Mistake, Opportunity, Hands

  "The Real Thing and Other Tales".

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• Isabella with her whip and boots and knives would chop anyone who tried to pen her up in a tower into pieces, build a bridge out of the remains, and walk carelessly to freedom, her hair looking fabulous the entire time.

  Cassandra Clare

  Hair, Knives, Bridges

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.547, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men." "Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

  Jane Austen

  Song, Book, Men

  'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 23 (Anne Eliot)

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• I know what I should love to do - to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made, and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it. Not a bookworm, being which is to give off no utterances; but a man in the world of writing - one with a pen that shall stop men to listen to it, whether they wish to or not.

  Lew Wallace

  Book, Writing, Men

  LEW WALLACE (1906). “AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY”

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• I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Stories, Short Story, Dreary

  Jonathan Carroll (2012). “Kissing the Beehive”, p.6, Open Road Media

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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 would write with love, but if I could write with love I would be another man; I would never have lost love.

  Graham Greene

  Lost Love, Writing, Men

  Graham Greene (1951). “The End of the Affair”, London Heinemann [1951]

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• There would be little reason to lie down at night without the possibility of seeing things bigger and more amazing than the average day might bright about. Why pick up a pen or type on a keyboard if there's no imagination or wonder left to behold? I would hate to be in the position of hoping for nothing simply because my brain can no longer dream.

  Obert Skye

  Dream, Hate, Lying

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• While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not with the pencil he is using, but with an old-fashioned goose pen, and not with the quill end but with the feather end. As if hundreds of butterflies have settled all over my face, and are softly opening and closing their wings.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Butterfly, Wings

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, p.69, Anchor

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• I swear I have at least one good song idea a day. But if I don't get pen to paper in ten seconds, it's gone forever.

  Cary Ann Hearst

  Song, Writing, Ideas

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• People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem.

  Eminem

  Notebook, People, Asking

  "Eminem speaks out in favour of gay marriage" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2010.

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• Let me tell you what I look like: pale face, long hair, and a tiny start of a paunch. In addition, an awkward gait, and a cigar in the mouth and a pen in pocket or hand.

  Albert Einstein

  Hair, Hands, Long

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.77, Princeton University Press

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• Bury me smilin' with G's in my pocket, Have a party at my funeral let every rapper rock it Let the hoes that I used to know, from way before Kiss me from my head to my toe, Gimme a paper and pen so I can write about my life of sin, Couple bottles of gin, in case I don't get in.

  Tupac Shakur

  Couple, Party, Writing

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• I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, Thinking, Paper

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• Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

  Charles Dickens

  Hands, Feet, Office

  Charles Dickens (1863). “David Copperfield”, p.276

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• The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind with the iron pen of fate, and tell us not only what powers are within, but how they have been employed.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Character, Fate, Destiny

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.86, Booklassic

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