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• The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Writing, Soul, Tongue

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1898). “The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha”

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• Hold your pen and spare your voice.

  Dorothy Parker

  Voice, Spares

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• 'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.

  Florence Welch

  Dog, Wall, Play

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• Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and hours of it, more precious, my dear Jenny! than the rubies about thy neck, are flying over our heads like light clouds of a windy day, never to return more -- every thing presses on -- whilst thou are twisting that lock, -- see! it grows grey ; and every time I kiss thy hand to bid adieu, and every absence which follows it, are preludes to that eternal separation which we are shortly to make!

  Laurence Sterne

  Kissing, Clouds, Light

  Laurence Sterne (1830). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: In One Volume, with a Life of the Author”, p.257

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• I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

  Terry Pratchett

  Macro

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• Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so I always carry pen and paper. My first draft is always written in longhand. But once the first dozen chapters, more like short stories, are written, then momentum builds until I can't leave the project until it's done.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Ideas, Gardening, Momentum

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• The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Eye, Hands, Tongue

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.261

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• When you are telling your story, hold your own ink pen. Don't let anybody else tell your story.

  Tracy Martin

  Ink, Stories, Telling Your Story

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

  Gustave Flaubert

  Men, Feels

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• I know I am made from this earth, as my mother's hands were made from this earth, as her dreams came from this earth and all that I know, I know in this earth, the body of the bird, this pen, this paper, these hands, this tongue speaking, all that I know speaks to me through this earth.

  Susan Griffin

  Mother, Dream, Hands

  Susan Griffin (2016). “Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her”, p.164, Counterpoint

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• It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated.

  Angelina Grimke

  Tongue, Truth Is, Presses

  Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.96, Penguin

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• My self . . . is a dramatic ensemble. Here a prophetic ancestor makes his appearance. Here a brutal hero shouts. Here an alcoholic bon vivant argues with a learned professor. Here a lyric muse, chronically love-struck, raises her eyes to heaven. Her papa steps forward, uttering pedantic protests. Here the indulgent uncle intercedes. Here the aunt babbles gossip. Here the maid giggles lasciviously. And I look upon it all with amazement, the sharpened pen in my left hand.

  Paul Klee

  Uncles, Hero, Eye

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.177, Univ of California Press

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• Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear as he said, Your heart knows what your head don't. Or won't.

  Mary Karr

  Heart, World, Dull

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• I have suffered, like other writers, from indolence, irresolution, distaste to my work, absence of 'inspiration,' and all that: but I have also found that sitting down, however reluctantly, with the pen in my hand, I have never worked for one quarter of an hour without finding myself in full train.

  Harriet Martineau

  Inspiration, Hands, Sitting Down

  Harriet Martineau (2006). “Autobiography”, p.156, Broadview Press

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• I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Hands, Brain

  Source: creativescreenwriting.com

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• A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure)

  Natsuki Takaya

  Novelists, Kimonos

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• There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way out.

  H. L. Mencken

  Paper, Way, Sheets

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.29, Knopf

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• I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Caring

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• Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.

  William Shakespeare

  Writing, Ink, Matter

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1778). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.232

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• Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.

  Horace Walpole

  Writing, Ink, Cold

  Letter to Montagu, 3 July 1752, in 'Letters'

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• To hold a pen is to be at war.

  Voltaire

  Peace, War, Writing

  Letter to Jeanne-Grâce Bosc du Bouchet, comtesse d'Argental, October 04, 1748.

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• The pen is mightier than the sword ... if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

  Terry Pratchett

  Discworld, Ifs

  "The Light Fantastic". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1986.

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• No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Men, Hands

  On Oliver Goldsmith, in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 29 (1780).

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• Some people are in charge of pens who shouldn't be in charge of brooms.

  Graham Parker

  People, Brooms

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• A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and aliens.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Real, Titles, Deeds

  George Edward Woodberry (1920). “The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses”

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