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- Nov 07, 2020
Pen Quotes
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- Hold
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- Nov 07, 2020
To hold a pen is to be at war.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The disparity between the haves and have-nots was always blatantly obvious to me, and it's that exact gap that drove me to start writing and pick up a pen. I wanted to explain and understand the world around me because it was easy to see it was corrupted.
- Nov 07, 2020
So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was as little as four years old, my mom would give me a pen and paper and tell me to write a story to keep me busy.
- Handing
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- Nov 07, 2020
As bad as the Obama administration is at trying to legislate without legislators, all too often, Congress is responsible for handing them the 'pen and phone.'
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.
- Dry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
We play a beat for 15, 20 seconds and know if we want to get on it. When we record a verse, it's no more than 15, 20 minutes. We don't have a pen and paper. We bounce off each other.
- Style
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- Nov 07, 2020
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I use a quill pen dipped in India ink. I also like Faber-Castell brush pens and Pigma Micron pens. And I work on Duo-Shade board.
- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote two novels about a yoga studio in Los Angeles published by Penguin under the pen name Rain Mitchell.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
No two composers were more totally at home in front of the piano than Debussy and Chopin, hands to keys to strings to sound waves to pen and paper in one perfect gesture of inspiration.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The name came about from me just closing my eyes and sticking a pen on a map of South Africa. St. Lucia was the fifth place that the pen landed on.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.
- Fountain Pen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.
- Fountain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I use a ball pen because fountain pens are clumsy, and I get ink all over my fingers by the time I finish with it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to read. I'm still pen pals with my ninth-grade English teacher, Mr. Shanley. He tells me what books to read.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
Under Obama, our federal tax dollars can now be used to fund abortion all over the world. With the stroke of a pen, abortion essentially became a U.S. foreign export.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.
- Paper
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
- Nov 07, 2020
Le Pen is old; I'm young.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write by hand and then transfer the text onto the computer. I like the process of actually having a pen in my hand. Things flow more easily for me that way.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
If your story is being told by someone who doesn't really know it, it's not going to come out accurate. A lot of it has to do with context. Whoever's behind the camera or pen or whatever.
- Pencil
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
We want a money that some government mandarin can't just whisk into existence with a pen stroke.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started writing, I didn't have the common sense to use a pseudonym, so I write under my own name. If I did have a pen name, though, it would be something very historical - something that sounds very sort of Regency... Sophia something.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday.
- Should
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- Nov 07, 2020
If David Duke got the percentage of the vote that Le Pen got, we would be terrified, as well we should be.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Farmers will not see good days unless their produce gets a guaranteed price. Even a notebook, a pen, or a soap has a price printed on it, but the milk that farmers sell do not have any price.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always have pen and paper with me.
- Independence
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- Nov 07, 2020
A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United States was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to be able to go deep in games and save those guys in the pen for down the stretch.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hand
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- Nov 07, 2020
Faulkner was the first novelist I read with pen and paper in hand because his technique stunned me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always have a Sharpie, because usually when someone asks me for an autograph, they don't have a pen. I carry one in my purse, as well as in my tennis bag.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I'm yet to pen a script, but it is something that I've been telling myself I want to do.
- Cry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do my best to make every word from my pen a cry from the heart for the souls of the dead.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's what I love about writing is you don't need anyone's permission to do it. You can just get up in the morning, grab a pad and pen and start writing.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've lost my share in the pen. I don't keep track, but I've won much more than I've lost. Since I was released almost one year ago, I've gone 9-1. My only loss was to a punk that brought mace to the dance.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you want a transcript of tonight's program, get a pen and write down everything I said.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm more of a feel pitcher. If something's wrong, I don't watch a video. I go throw in the bull pen until it feels right.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
- Sad
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- Nov 07, 2020
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always do book signings with the same blue pen. That way, if I add a personalised message to a book I've already signed, it'll be in the same colour as my signature.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this manner, I continued with Satan for ten days. His answer and blasphemy were too shocking to pen; till I was worn out with rage and malice against him, I could not bear myself.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trust me, I did not set out to establish three pen names and, for the record, I do not recommend it as a career strategy. The idea back at the start was that I would stick with the name that proved most successful.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I don't produce insulin, I have to put insulin into my body, which means that I have a pen with a needle on it. I have it with me. You have to stick it in your thigh, or your arm - a lot of different spots you can put it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always nice when people discover I'm a normal person and not, because of my appearance, a half-crazed lunatic who may stab them with a Bic pen.
- Paper
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a total technophobe. What is wrong with paper and pen? I was delighted when I learnt the word 'Luddite,' as I thought it described me perfectly.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
For some reason, some of my best solutions and ideas are triggered in those dark theaters, usually totally unrelated to what's going on onscreen. I also enjoy hiking in the foothills and mountains close to Sacramento. I always have to bring a pen and paper to jot down sudden thoughts and ideas. So inspiration arises from countless sources.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter if I wrote them or not.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether it's a computer or a pen drawing, design is about drawing shapes and making physical things.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been able to write. I've always been able to put a good essay in or say whatever I wanted to say through the pen. That was a gift of mine. I feel like it was what I was meant to do.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties.
- Did
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- Nov 07, 2020
Presidents are evaluated not by what they did by the stroke of their own pen; it's what they persuade Congress to do.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020