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It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.
Adam Ant
Guitar
Took
Seven
Pen
Minute
Pick
Years
Up
May
Coincidence
I'm an internet junkie. There, I said it. That's the first step, right? I also have a thing for making lists. Oh man, nothing beats turning to a fresh, clean page in a notebook, taking out a nice pen, and starting a list. There's so much potential there. So much to do, so little time! So hey, why not spend some of that time making a list.
Adam Christopher
Time
Man
Internet
First
Nothing
Nice
Spend
Hey
Pen
Out
Some
Potential
Clean
Beats
Step
Taking
Also
First Step
Fresh
Said
Making
List
Oh
Lists
Little
Notebook
Much
Turning
Page
Little Time
Why
Why Not
Right
Thing
Starting
I use a G-Pen from Zebra. Different people have different preferred pen nibs. I don't put much force on it when I draw, so I'll generally use a single nib for about three chapters.
Akira Toriyama
People
Three
Single
Chapters
Pen
Draw
About
Generally
Put
Force
Different
Preferred
Much
Different People
Use
What I regret most after becoming a cartoonist is having used my real name. At first, I figured there was no way I'd sell anyhow, so I didn't even consider using a pen name.
Akira Toriyama
Regret
First
Consider
Way
Pen
Cartoonist
Having
Name
Most
Becoming
Real
Sell
Real Name
Anyhow
After
Used
Figured
Using
Even
I always lose every single pencil I ever had. So I can draw with everything. With pencil, with pen.
Alessandro Michele
Single
Lose
Every
Everything
Pen
Draw
Pencil
Had
Always
Ever
I like that original romance of having a pen and a legal pad and going anywhere in the world and being able to write a novel with just those two things.
Alice McDermott
Legal
World
Pen
Those
Able
Having
Write
Like
Going
Just
Romance
Being
Anywhere
Pad
Original
Novel
Things
Two
Most times, your blessings are also your curses. And for me, I have this ability to express myself so clearly with pen and paper, but when it comes to expressing myself verbally, I put up a big wall.
Alicia Keys
Myself
Me
Big
Paper
Pen
Ability
Put
Clearly
Most
Blessings
Also
Verbally
Up
Times
Wall
Curses
Your
Express
Expressing
The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.
Alison Gopnik
Great
You
Will
Drop
Pen
Give
Empathy
Study
Altruism
Climb
Go
Bunch
Children
Room
Capacity
Youngest
Across
Even
Shows
Recent
Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.
Anna Deavere Smith
Time
Reality
People
Matter
Rest
Own
Resonates
Pen
Something
Take
Pick
Caught
Up
Artists
Middle
Happening
Translate
Create
Paintbrush
Deeply
I'm not formal and I'm impatient. So I think my team would say that when she starts tapping her pen and the leg starts moving quickly, that it's time to move on. I'm not good at long, drawn-out kinds of sessions.
Anne M. Mulcahy
Time
Good
Long
Move On
Think
Starts
Pen
Say
Would
Kinds
Impatient
She
Tapping
Leg
Quickly
Move
Formal
Moving
Team
Her
The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.
Anne Tyler
Morning
Writing
Walk
Try
Every
Rule
Pen
Pick
Up
Room
We're living in extraordinary times, all the time. The issues that assail us are perennial. They haven't changed since the Greeks picked up a pen.
Anthony McCarten
Time
Living
Changed
Extraordinary
Pen
Perennial
Picked
Since
Issues
Up
Times
Greeks
Us
Writers are a superstitious cowardly lot, and we loathe learning new computer applications to do something that, let's be honest, we could accomplish equally well with pen and paper - especially when that application is as unconventional as Scrivener.
Antony Johnston
Learning
Cowardly
Loathe
Paper
Pen
Something
Superstitious
Could
Computer
Writers
Unconventional
New
Well
Equally
Accomplish
Lot
Application
Applications
Honest
Harper Collins gave me a letter of intent saying that they want me to pen down my autobiography. When I was recollecting the incidents of my life for that, I selected only those incidents which were turning points in my life. I staged it instead of writing it.
Anupam Kher
Life
Saying
Me
Writing
My Life
Down
Gave
Pen
Those
Collins
Only
Selected
Points
Instead
Were
Intent
Autobiography
Want
Staged
Which
Turning
Turning Points
Incidents
Letter
The decision to use a pen name was nothing more than a desire to compartmentalise my life. However, I had not thought about an appropriate pseudonym, and since there's an abundance of anagrams in the novel, the idea struck me: why not use an anagram of my name? Hence, Shawn Haigins.
Ashwin Sanghi
Life
Me
Decision
Thought
My Life
Nothing
Appropriate
Pen
About
Struck
More
Had
Idea
Abundance
Since
Name
Shawn
However
Than
Pseudonym
Use
Novel
Hence
Why
Why Not
Desire
We actually believe Windows 8 is the new era for the PC plus. We believe with a single push of a button you can move seamlessly in and out of both worlds. We believe you can have touch, a pen, a mouse, and a keyboard.
B. Kevin Turner
You
Single
Believe
Worlds
Keyboard
Pen
Out
Plus
Windows
Touch
Both
Both Worlds
Push
New
New Era
Era
Mouse
Move
Seamlessly
Actually
Button
If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out. In a poem, the pen is more like a flashlight, a Geiger counter, or one of those metal detectors that people walk around beaches with.
Billy Collins
You
People
Walk
Thought
Pen
Those
Out
Record
Detector
Beaches
Something
Poem
More
Write
Counter
Simply
Like
Around
Metal
Agenda
Using
Letter
Resignation
My mother was a full-time mom, and Dad started his own business. He was a mini-American dream story. Came from Russia at age 4, started his own pen business in Brooklyn. The company isn't around now, but he created his own healthy little world, leaving a decent legacy. My dad taught at Cooper Union but was never fully graduated himself.
Bonnie Hammer
Mom
Business
Age
World
Mother
Healthy
Own
Pen
Dream
Brooklyn
Russia
Never
He
Himself
Around
Leaving
Came
His
Legacy
Graduated
Taught
Decent
Story
Little
Created
Full-Time
Mom And Dad
Union
Fully
Company
Dad
Cooper
Now
Started
To me, it's like the difference between a pen and a paintbrush. Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from. Nobody really does. It sort of arrives when it wants to.
Brandon Boyd
Music
Art
Me
You
Pen
Draws
Almost
Between
Nobody
Like
Know
Identical
Sort
Does
Intangible
Difference
Where
Wants
Place
Which
Ether
Really
Paintbrush
Pulling
I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more creative than typing, and it's a more visual process for me - I can picture the entire scene in my head and am merely writing what I see.
Cecelia Ahern
Love
Me
Creative
Writing
Feeling
Picture
Typing
Paper
Pen
Visual
See
Entire
More
Scene
Write
Head
Merely
Feels
Longhand
Am
Than
Process
Novels
Most industrial designers do a bottle or a pen or a computer - things that go right past your eye. When you see a chair, it's almost like a person. It's this great big thing in front of you. It hits you more.
Charles Pollock
Great
You
Big
Past
Pen
Eye
See
More
Computer
Bottle
Almost
Like
Most
Industrial
Go
Person
Hits
Front
Big Thing
Your
Chair
Right
Thing
Things
Designers
These deserters were our undoing. I shall have a good deal more to say about them before I finally lay down my pen, and I shall not hesitate to call them by their true name, the name with which they will be for ever branded before all the nations of the world.
Christiaan Rudolf de Wet
Good
World
Will
Before
Down
Our
Hesitate
Finally
Pen
Say
About
More
Shall
Lay
True
Name
Call
Deal
Were
Undoing
Branded
Nations
Which
Them
Good Deal
Ever
Writing with kids is an adventure. It seems like someone always has the flu or pink-eye. I mean, you don't even have to be in direct contact with anyone to get pink-eye. But for parents who write, flexibility becomes essential, and as long as I have a pad of paper and a pen, I can write anywhere. Starbucks is fine.
Claire Messud
You
Writing
Flu
Long
Parents
Paper
Pen
Kids
Fine
Direct
Someone
Direct Contact
Seems
Write
Contact
Adventure
Like
Becomes
Always
Get
Essential
Anyone
Anywhere
Mean
Pad
Flexibility
Who
Even
Starbucks
I'm really happy that more and more people are making their own comics. I remember how daunting it was for me to just put pen to paper, page by page, until you had a finished comic, but the way new creators are doing that and bravely bringing their unique voices and experiences to their work is really inspiring.
Cliff Chiang
Work
Me
You
Happy
People
Remember
Finished
Own
Way
Paper
Pen
More
More And More
More People
Daunting
Voices
Inspiring
Had
Put
New
Until
Comic
How
Making
Comics
Doing
Bravely
Just
Experiences
Really
Page
Unique
Creators
Bringing
I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.
Colm Toibin
First
Before
Type
Pen
Write
Up
Fountain
Fountain Pen
Second
Draft
It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
Dale Dauten
Business
Pen
Hooked
Like
Printer
Brain
Straight
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