177 Pen Quotes for You to Enjoy

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it. Laurence Sterne

Me Pen Neither Mention Govern Nor Governs Ask Why Here

To me, the contemporary novel suffers from a lack of sense of place - or spirit of place, if you will. It's not important to most writers, I must assume, or they try to research a given background on sabbatical. Not for me. I write about places I've lived long before I ever set pen to paper. Lawrence Osborne

Me You Try Will Long Important Before Sense Research Assume Background Paper Pen Must Spirit About Given Sabbatical Write Writers Most Contemporary Lack Place Places Novel Lived Ever Suffers Set

For the last 15 years that I have been performing, all I ever wanted to do was transcend poetry to the world. See, it wasn't enough for me to write a book. It wasn't enough for me to join a slam competition, and while those things hold weight, it wasn't the driving force that pushes the pen to the pad. Lemon Andersen

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I usually dream of melodies. When I wake up I have them in my head. I usually come up with things in the middle of the night because that's when my mind is the quietest. I always have my tape recorder, pen and pad by my bed just in case. Leona Lewis

I was at a banquet, and I went into the ladies' room, and I'm in the stall doing my business, and a piece of paper and pen came from outside the door, and she says, 'Ms. Wagner, would you please sign this for me?' And I said, 'Are you kidding me?' Lindsay Wagner

I do my best to make every word from my pen a cry from the heart for the souls of the dead. Liu Xiaobo

Best Heart Word Every Pen Cry Dead Make Souls

I'm not that great of a speaker. I don't like watching my own interviews. I think I suck at talking, but one thing I can do is move my pen, and if that's how I gotta speak to my daughter, then let me do that. Machine Gun Kelly

I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium. Mackenzie Crook

Medium Pen Draw Though Still Lot Preferred

I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints. Maira Kalman

World Live Pen Small Brush Like Prints Explore Ink

Where I thrive is with my hands on the keyboard or my pen on the paper. One of the things I get to do is I get to rewrite. I rewrite, and I work hard on my scripts. You can rewrite until you're 'perfect,' and that's something that's safe for me. Mara Brock Akil

People buy pads all the time, because they want to write stuff down. We're never going to get away from paper, ever. People like writing; that's why more people are writing more real thank-you notes now - not just to stand out, but because there's something about pen to paper, about holding something cool in your hands. Marcus Buckingham

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I'm fighting for Marine Le Pen to become president. Marion Marechal-Le Pen

Become Fighting President Pen Marine

I believe Jean-Marie Le Pen is a man of his word, and he will not go back on his words. Marion Marechal-Le Pen

Man Words Word Will Believe Back Pen He Go His

When Reg died and we first looked into getting a new dog, I was adamant we should pick up a mongrel from an animal-rescue shelter. It's not only that they're usually healthier and have better temperaments, they also fit with my world view - I prefer a ballpoint to a fountain pen, a barber to a hair stylist, and camping over glamping. Mark Barrowcliffe

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I try to stay away from stuff that's just action, action, action, action, action, and you kind of fast-forward through the dialogue scenes. I'm not interested in doing that. Give me a reason to fight, and I'll go there. But don't just make it, 'You touched my pen! Haaa-yah!' I've done that before. Mark Dacascos

Me You Fight Try Before Action Pen Kind Stay Give Touched Give Me Scenes Through Stuff Make Dialogue Doing Go Done Just Not Interested Interested Reason Away

I used to write exclusively with one particular Montblanc fountain pen, although lately I have had to use a roller-tip fountain pen, because I find it harder and harder to control the fine muscles of my right hand during prolonged periods of work. I buy boxes of Deluxe Uni-ball pens, use them until they start to drag, and then change. Mark Helprin

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The pen is mightier than the sword, and is considerably easier to write with. Marty Feldman

Considerably Pen Easier Write Than Mightier Sword

In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing. Mary Garden

Me Writing Mind Few Other Keyboard Back Way Paper Pen Find Constant Minutes Finger Give Something Write Put Almost Tracks Always Yearning Up Did Stopped Hankering After Anything Things

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. Mary Harris Jones

Pen Scaffold Am Afraid Sword

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please. Mary Harris Jones

Truth Will Please Pen Scaffold Tell Am Afraid Wherever Sword

We have to be able to go deep in games and save those guys in the pen for down the stretch. Matt Cain

Down Pen Those Able Guys Go Games Deep Save Stretch

There is a lot of evidence to back up the assertion that war fiction takes time. Many all-time classics of the genre, from Erich Maria Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front' to Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22' to Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried,' took over a decade to pen. Matt Gallagher

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I got to take classes in writing with a fountain pen, and actually, something you make is your own textbook. So, while you're learning about something, you have to write essays on it, and then you handwrite in cursive, in fountain pen, your essays out on beautiful paper and you bind it together into a book that you hand in at the end of the course. Maya Hawke

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