- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pen Quotes
Short lines on the tool behind every written word.
These quotes look at the pen as more than an object, from comparisons with modern word processors to the idea that picking one up to write is itself a kind of confrontation. See related lines under Book.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- 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