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Pen Quotes

I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.

Mary Lou Retton

Time Mind Start Giving You Pen

Presidents are evaluated not by what they did by the stroke of their own pen; it's what they persuade Congress to do.

Pen Congress Own Persuade Did

I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I'm yet to pen a script, but it is something that I've been telling myself I want to do.

Myself Poetry Pen Want Something

I always have a good pen with me.

Good Me Pen Always

For any writer, a red pen is such a trigger.

Red Pen Trigger Writer Any

Everyone should have a tailor. David Wilkes, the guy who does my stuff, is like, 'Well you're a writer - do you want a special pen compartment or something?' Bespoke: That's the term you want to get out there.

Douglas Coupland

You Pen Want Special Out Tailor

My copy of 'Night' is dog-eared. The pages are filled with plastic colored 'flags' that are blue, green, purple, and yellow. Vocabulary is in the margins; phrases and sentences are underlined, some with pencil, and some with pen. Many words are circled.

Clemantine Wamariya

Words Blue Yellow Green Night Pen

Writers are a superstitious cowardly lot, and we loathe learning new computer applications to do something that, let's be honest, we could accomplish equally well with pen and paper - especially when that application is as unconventional as Scrivener.

Antony Johnston

Learning Pen Accomplish New Honest

The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.

Children Great Empathy Climb Pen Go

The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.

Words Religion Law Book Church Pen

Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.

Alone Me You Pen Find Shower

I don't know if I want her to sing it with us, but I'm curious to what type of song Taylor Swift would write for us. I'm curious to see what kind of pen she would write for TLC. Or like an Adam Levine. Somebody like that. They're phenomenal writers.

Curious Song Pen Know Want Kind

I used to write exclusively with one particular Montblanc fountain pen, although lately I have had to use a roller-tip fountain pen, because I find it harder and harder to control the fine muscles of my right hand during prolonged periods of work. I buy boxes of Deluxe Uni-ball pens, use them until they start to drag, and then change.

Work Change Control Start Pen Find

When Reg died and we first looked into getting a new dog, I was adamant we should pick up a mongrel from an animal-rescue shelter. It's not only that they're usually healthier and have better temperaments, they also fit with my world view - I prefer a ballpoint to a fountain pen, a barber to a hair stylist, and camping over glamping.

Mark Barrowcliffe

Dog Hair World Better View Pen

I usually dream of melodies. When I wake up I have them in my head. I usually come up with things in the middle of the night because that's when my mind is the quietest. I always have my tape recorder, pen and pad by my bed just in case.

Mind Night Wake Up Pen Dream Bed

I'm glad I wrote them when I did because I think if I were to write my first novel now, it would be a different book, and it may not be the book that everybody wants to read. But if I were given a red pen now, and I went back... I'd take that thing apart.

Khaled Hosseini

Red Book Think Pen Back Now

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

Time Pen Table Quiet Room No Time

I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative.

Love Yourself Thought Problem Pen

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Good Brain Pen Connected Hand Never

I want to help with Muslim integration. If you follow the line of Marine Le Pen, you create a civil war.

Emmanuel Macron

War Help You Pen Create Want

I was writing fantasy as soon as I could hold a pen.

Cecilia Dart-Thornton

Writing Pen Fantasy Hold Soon Could

My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I'd sketch shoes and shoes and shoes.

Shoes Me Mom Pen Sketch First

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.

Man Literature You Pen Nothing Way

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

Thinking Thought Language You Pen

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