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• I was walking every morning, and I'd take my iPod and paper and pen. As I walked, I wrote a poem, and then I'd come home - and sometimes it's legible, sometimes not - I typed the poem up. So I have a new, yet to be published, collection of poems now. It's called Walker's Alphabet, and among other things, it is about walking. My most recent collection of poems in 2010, incidentally, was titled WALKING backwards.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Morning, Home, Ipods

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• There are days now where I think, "Oh man, that would've been a great entry," but I'm putting the pen down until I clear my head, or think of another book idea.

  Andy Cohen

  Book, Men, Thinking

  "Watch What Happens...When Anderson Cooper interviews Andy Cohen". Interview With Anderson Cooper, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 25, 2016.

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• Ever since roughly 1890, when snot poets first decided that rhyme was confining and unnecessary, every idiot with a pen fancied hisself a poet. The mere act of rhyming was suddenly regarded as a quaint, mannered, and uncool atavism, consigning doggerelists like me to the trash bin of literary history.

  Gene Weingarten

  Rhyming, Firsts, Idiot

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I think the twenty-first century happened, basically. That this century started on 9/11. And basically, it's been a century of counter reaction to globalization and the meritocracy. And a good century for 72 nations have gotten more authoritarian. We've had Brexit. We have Le Pen rising in France. We've just got a lot of these types all around the world. And the people who are suffering from globalization and the meritocracy are saying, "No more. You know, we get a voice too."

  David Brooks

  Thinking, People, Suffering

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene of a crime.

  Don Roff

  Criminals, Sometimes, Crime

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• Like Ice Cube asks, "Why are more niggers in the pen than in college?" It's easier to go to the pen than it is to go to college.

  Snoop Dogg

  College, Ice, Cubes

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. October, 1995.

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• I read an interview with Daniel Woodrell once where he said something like, basically, if people had said what they said to him in a bar instead of workshop, he would have punched them...and I finally understood that when in a class with my wife. Every time someone said something about her work, I wanted to climb across the table and stab them in the neck with my pen. And these were people I liked and respected.

  Tod Goldberg

  Class, People, Wife

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Charlie Hebdo mocked everyone. They mocked the left. They mocked the right. They mocked, above all, the extreme right, the extreme right of Le Pen's. If anything could identify their politics, they were kinds of anarchists.

  Scott Simon

  Charlie Hebdo, Kind, Anarchist

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I feel that the act of writing, in and of itself, is a tool towards probing that which you wouldn't without that pen in your hand. It's a strange, almost neurological phenomenon, and the words seem to generate more words - but only when you're writing. You can't do it in your head.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Hands, Tools

  "A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. November 16, 2009.

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• I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I cross out a lot - I'm not writing in stone tablets, it's just ink on paper. I don't feel comfortable without a pen or a pencil in my hand. I can't think with my fingers on the keyboard. Words are generated for me by gripping the pen, and pressing the point on the paper.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Thinking, Typewriters

  "A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. November 16, 2009.

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• 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.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Over You, May

  "The Artist's Way: An Interview With Julia Cameron". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. January 23, 2014.

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• I like to write paper mail - nobody does that anymore - with my pen pals.

  Hilarie Burton

  Writing, Pals, Paper

  "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Hilarie Burton". Interview with Laura Lane, www.esquire.com. June 6, 2011.

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• Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Summer, Fall, Boys

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• The Bible is God's declaratory revelation to man containing the great truths about God, about man, about history, about salvation, and about prophecy that God wanted us to know. The Bible could be trusted just as much as if God had taken the pen and written the words Himself.

  John F Walvoord

  Taken, Men, Revelations

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• The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart.

  John Steinbeck

  Heart, Men, Mind

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.180, Penguin

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• I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. 'The first thing,' I said, 'is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write.'

  Aldous Huxley

  Writing, Ambition, Men

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

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• We have Trumpist (ph) tendencies in Europe. Look up Marine Le Pen in France. Look at the Five Star Movement headed by a clown by profession, Beppe Grillo, in Italy.

  Lionel Barber

  Stars, Marine, Europe

  "The Consequences Of The Brexit Referendum". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 11, 2016.

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• My artistic process involves pens, gesso, acrylic paint, and markers, all on vellum. I use a window painter's technique and paint on the backside of my image before I mess with the front.

  Chelsea Martin

  Technique, Use, Artistic

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I revise like crazy. I start revising before the pen hits the paper.

  John Dufresne

  Crazy, Paper, Revising

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I hear better with a pen in my hand.

  Alan Judd

  Hands

  Alan Judd (1995). “Devil's Own Work”, Vintage Books

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• Someone asked me if I would like to write a man on death row, be a pen pal, and I was like, sure. I volunteered. I had been in a place in my life - a relationship had ended; my parents were getting elderly - I was kind of adrift. The name that was given to me, just randomly, was Todd Willingham. And he wrote me a letter, and in this letter, he thanked me for writing him and [said that] if I would like to visit, he would put me on his visitor list... I was just really struck by the letter from Todd. It was very polite; it was very kind.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Writing, Men, Elderly

  "Frontline (Death by Fire)". TV Series, www.pbs.org. October 19, 2010.

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• 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

  Team, Moving, Thinking

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• The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Hands, History, Clerks

  A. J. P. Taylor (2001). “English History 1914-1945”, p.38, Oxford Paperbacks

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• After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Ideas, Two, Drawing

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• Bathe in your riches and friends, I'll stay here with my songbooks and pens

  Andy Biersack

  Bvb, Black Veil Brides, Riches

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