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.
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.
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The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other hand, what you have to say and how you say it is the ultimate determination.
Always Quotes
I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.
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...
So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.
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.
Book Quotes
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.'
I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.
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...
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.
Good Quotes
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.
I wrote two novels about a yoga studio in Los Angeles published by Penguin under the pen name Rain Mitchell.
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.
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.
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.
Like Quotes
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.
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