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It's an imaginative thing we do; it's about immersing oneself in one's imagination. If you're a novelist, you do it with pen and paper. We do it with our bodies.

Imagination You Pen Paper Our About

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

You Pen Seeing Colour Point Texture

A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.

Michael Ondaatje

Pen Torch Writer Blow Instead Uses

I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.

Garry Shandling

Confidence Enough Landscape Pen Saw

When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay.

Life Feel You Pen Say Okay

I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India.

Work Pen India Hand Fountain Buy

An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.

Focus Pen Wealth Results Employment

I'm not letting him write anything. I didn't do anything. I just took his pen.

Pen Write Him Anything Just His

Sheep may not be brilliant, but they know that sheep in pen is stage number one of lamb chops.

Sheep Pen Know Brilliant Stage May

My mother was a full-time mom, and Dad started his own business. He was a mini-American dream story. Came from Russia at age 4, started his own pen business in Brooklyn. The company isn't around now, but he created his own healthy little world, leaving a decent legacy. My dad taught at Cooper Union but was never fully graduated himself.

Mother Business Age Mom Legacy Pen

I'm not formal and I'm impatient. So I think my team would say that when she starts tapping her pen and the leg starts moving quickly, that it's time to move on. I'm not good at long, drawn-out kinds of sessions.

Anne M. Mulcahy

Good Time Team Moving Think Pen

Most people who talk about either entitlement cuts or revenue - when you have to put pen to paper, it is much more difficult.

William M. Daley

People You Pen Talk More Difficult

That's the nice thing about being a live act. I can get the audience, but it's for the moment. It's like, 'Can I do it tonight?' And you can see when people like you. But on record - and with the pen - it's almost for all time. Really, a lot more thought has to go into it.

Live Time Moment People Thought Pen

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.

Me Pen Want Fountain Anything Paper

Being attached to America these days is like being in a pen with a wounded bull.

America Pen Bull Days Being Like

Faulkner was the first novelist I read with pen and paper in hand because his technique stunned me.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Me Pen Hand First Paper Because

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.

Maria Sharapova

Me Bag Someone Pen Tennis Always

I'm just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I'm inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.

Music Myself Me Writing Pride Pen

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Education Men Story Hands Pen Prove

You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Struggle Words Stubborn Doing Pen

Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the pen must come in to tighten it up.

Best Song Pen Hand Way Possible

Why would you not have a robot that looks like Abraham Lincoln? Why would it look like an erector set? Why use a computer with a punchcard, when you could use one with a touch pen on the screen? Why a car, when you could use a jetpack?

George M. Church

Car You Pen Look Looks Why

Give us that grand word 'woman' once again, and let's have done with 'lady'; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Beautiful Woman Strong Tongue Pen

The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.

Thought You Pen Discovery Write Out

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