- Focus
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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
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sheep may not be brilliant, but they know that sheep in pen is stage number one of lamb chops.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is easy to criticize me from behind a pen or a microphone, from someone who never set foot on a football field.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.
- Grabbed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to write a letter from wherever we landed.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
How do you solve a mystery? How do you write a book? The techniques for starting both are surprisingly similar. Find an intriguing question and, pen and dagger tucked under cloak, search for clues.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think now, whenever I write, there is nothing that will really compare to pen and paper.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020