Pens Quotes - Page 27

• Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Lying, World, Danger

  "Memoirs from the Women's Prison". Book by Nawal El Saadawi, 1986.

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• I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of a scene is usually the tenth or so draft.

  John Dufresne

  Writing, Lines, Firsts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.

  Peter Kreeft

  Writing, Choices, Stories

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• I carry around a little journal with me, a little notebook and a pen and just write all the time. Not necessarily actually sitting down and writing lyrics, just free-form writing, whatever's going on in my mind.

  Mandy Moore

  Notebook, Writing, Mind

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• What makes me put pen to paper? You know, that's the million-dollar question. I've been writing since I've been reading. It's not a question I think that's even meant to be answered, but it's something you always seek to discover the answer to. And the process of filmmaking is one of discovery, and self-discovery at that. Pleasure... it's not exactly what I would call fun, but it's absorbing.

  Todd Solondz

  Fun, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As soon as you start to think of that thing that you want to convey or say, you can always just say it much better than you can actually rhyme it or stuff it into a song. It's very, very difficult to just kind of get your point across without going the back way. And you have to be good at that, to not think about things so hard. Let the pen take over, so that it's somebody else's job to dissect the lyrics and tell you what you're all about.

  Ariel Pink

  Song, Jobs, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As a writer, my weapon is my pen. I want to create more awareness about the people in Syria. This is the most important issue: protecting civilians in this crazy war.

  Osama Alomar

  Crazy, War, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Leadership, Wisdom, Believe

  "16-Year-Old Activist Malala Yousafzai Steals The Show At NYC Awards Show" by Jocelyn Noveck, www.businessinsider.com. November 12, 2013.

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• The problem was, and we saw some of this in the immigration-reform issues as well, was they hadn't done sufficient homework to know that I didn't have all the capacity they thought I did in order to just execute this through the stroke of a pen.

  Barack Obama

  Order, Issues, Immigration

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• My self-image it still isn't that alright. No matter how famous I am, no matter how many people go to see my movies, I still have the idea that I'm that pale no-hoper that I used to be. A pale no-hoper that happens to be a little lucky now. Tomorrow it'll be all over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again.

  Johnny Depp

  Self, Ideas, People

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• There's something about working in adverse conditions. It keeps it interesting. I always notice if I ever sit down with a pen and piece of paper and a guitar, and I have a beverage and an ashtray and I'm comfortable on the couch, I fall asleep.

  Brendan Benson

  Fall, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've put down my scrivener's pen. These days i prefer not to.

  Mike Noonan

  These Days

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• What I do usually is read the book first, for pleasure, to see if my brain starts connecting with it, as a movie. And then, if I say yes, I read it again, only this time I take a pen and, inside the book, I say, "Okay, this is a scene. I don't need this. I'm going to try this. I'm not going to take this." And then, I use that book like a bible and each chapter heading, I write a menu of what's in that chapter, in case I ever need to reference it. And then, I start to outline and write it. I get in there and it starts to evolve, based on having re-read it again.

  Richard LaGravenese

  Book, Writing, Brain

  Source: collider.com

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• The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That I think is valuable. In terms of actually tweeting myself, I have just lost enthusiasm for it. Maybe I'll do some of it this week to tell people about the PEN Festival and encourage them to show up.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: pen.org

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• The PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award is a way of spotlighting individual cases. If you look at the history of the award, the freedom rate is very high: a very high percentage of people who receive those awards are freed in the next six months to a year. The only weapon there is attention, but interestingly it works.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, People, Attention

  Source: pen.org

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• When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you're not just bringing the products, but you're also harming local manufacturers. You must strengthen your manufacturing sector and put it on a level playing field with the world. Any kind of items manufactured globally, like small pens, pencils, notebooks - our manufactured goods need to be on a level playing field. Then let them come. Have a competition.

  Narendra Modi

  Notebook, Country, Competition

  "Q&A: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi". Interview with Amol Sharma, blogs.wsj.com. August 29, 2012.

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• Trump is a hybrid phenomenon as I see it. He is somewhat like UKIP and Le Pen with his right-wing populism that espouses some fascist overtones, but he's also partly just the old neoliberalism in disguise, especially if we look at some of the people he appointed to his cabinet.

  John Bellamy Foster

  People, Disguise, Phenomenon

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• I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they urged me to go into a profession that would be far more secure so I went to medical school. But after practicing medicine for a few years, while raising two sons (with a husband who was also a doctor) I realized that combining medicine with motherhood was more of a challenge than I could handle. So I left medicine and stayed home. And that's when I once again picked up the pen and began to write.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Husband, Home, Writing

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I love writing thank-you notes. There's something very nostalgic to me about the feel of a card and putting pen to paper. How many times in our lives are we required to put pen to paper anymore?

  Taylor Swift

  Writing, Cards, Paper

  "Why Taylor Swift Welcomed You to New York". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. October 20, 2014.

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• Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, "could have, might have, should have,and might have been." Create yourself and live the story of your own unique life.

  Rita Zahara

  Motivational, Unique, Should Have

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• A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Writing, Long

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• The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and justly weigh every motive. For such an audience there is need neither of affectation nor of restraint. Sincerity is what they ask, detail, and volume; skill with the pen comes in conveniently, but brilliance is not necessary; genius is a hindrance even; and should you know your business and do it manfully, posterity will let you off mixing with great men, reporting famous affairs, or having lain with the first ladies in the land.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Men, Land

  Virginia Woolf (1967). “Collected essays”

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• In autumn, when the leaves are brown,
  Take pen and ink, and write it down.

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Autumn, Poetry

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Through the Looking-Glass”, p.51, Xist Publishing

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• Traveling takes the ink out of one's pen as well as the cash out of one's purse.

  Herman Melville

  Money, Travel, Cash

  Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.148, Northwestern University Press

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• I blame the newspapers because every day they call our attention to insignificant things, while three or four times in our lives,we read books that contain essential things. Once we feverishly tear the band of paper enclosing our newspapers, things should change and we should find--I do not know--the Pensées by Pascal!

  Marcel Proust

  Book, Knowledge, Insignificant Things

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