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Pen Quotes

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Man Thoughts Pen Know Lying Write

Flaubert called himself a human pen; I would say that I am a human ear. When I walk down the street and catch words, phrases, and exclamations, I always think - how many novels disappear without a trace! Disappear into darkness.

Svetlana Alexievich

Walk Darkness Words I Am Think Pen

The day I entered St Columb's College, my parents bought me a Conway Stewart pen. It was a special afternoon, of course. We were going to be parting that evening; they were aware of it, I was aware of it, nothing much was said about it.

Day Parents College Me Evening Pen

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.

World Pen Abortion Tax Now Over

Marine Le Pen belongs to her generation, I belong to mine. I got into politics for Marine Le Pen and with her as party leader.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

Leader Politics Generation Pen Party

I chose my pen name when I was ten, because I knew even then that my legal name would be more trouble than it was worth.

Legal Name Worth Pen Trouble More

If you swap it about, do television, theatre, film, you can go on surprising yourself. The problem is you get employed to do something you've already done. They want something from that sheep pen of performances they've seen you do.

Kenneth Cranham

Yourself Theatre Problem Sheep Pen

I don't mean it to sound egomaniacal, but in a way, for me, it was very useful to imagine that I was the only one who was taking pen in hand. I'd always been told that it was impossible to be published, so I was writing only for myself.

Myself Me Writing Impossible Pen

I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.

Gustave Flaubert

I Am Feel Pen Through Because Am

I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes out that you're actually satisfied with.

Guitar You Pen Play Out Up

I don't have a pen name, so I'm thinking of getting a doctor's name. What would you call that, a stethoscope name?

Doctor Thinking Name You Pen Call

I hate digital calendars, so I use pen and paper or the palm of my hand for my daily schedule. I get much more satisfaction out of physically crossing things out than deleting.

Elizabeth Diller

Daily Hate Pen Satisfaction Hand

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. In a poem, the pen is more like a flashlight, a Geiger counter, or one of those metal detectors that people walk around beaches with.

Walk People Thought You Pen Write

I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.

Talent Pen Too Much Academic Dry

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

Humble You Pen Find Quiet Place

Where I thrive is with my hands on the keyboard or my pen on the paper. One of the things I get to do is I get to rewrite. I rewrite, and I work hard on my scripts. You can rewrite until you're 'perfect,' and that's something that's safe for me.

Mara Brock Akil

Work Me Work Hard Hands Thrive Pen

The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.

George Dennison Prentice

Great Man People Pen More Deal

There are people who'll dismiss me as 'just' a singer. That's how it is, how it's always been, but just because I'm not hunched over a piece of paper with a pen in my hand doesn't mean I'm not putting in the graft.

People Me Pen Just Because Hand

I use Pilot's document ink, but their drawing ink is OK, too. It's just that I don't like the impression that clings to the pen tip.

Drawing Pen Pilot Impression Just

I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out.

Eyes Rain Water I Am Pen Run

I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle.

Time Step People Impossible Pen

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

Pen Brilliant Need Give Mine Far

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.

Pen Play Know Want More Beat

It's quite humbling when you see the list of writers who have been president of PEN and you know some of the things they've done.

John Ralston Saul

You Pen Know Done President See

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