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• How do you solve a mystery? How do you write a book? The techniques for starting both are surprisingly similar. Find an intriguing question and, pen and dagger tucked under cloak, search for clues.

  Claire Cameron

  Book, Writing, Technique

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• How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, People, Used

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• An artist of understanding and experience can show more of his great power and art in small things roughly and rudely done, than many another in a great work. A man may often draw something with his pen on a half sheet of paper in one day . . . . and it shall be fuller of art and better than another's great work whereon he hath spent a whole year's careful labor.

  Albrecht Durer

  Art, Men, Years

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• As President, I was able to save with the stroke of the pen a hundred million acres of wilderness area in Alaska. This is the kind of thing that is is gratifying to a President, but to be on a solitary stream with good friends, with a fly rod in your hand, and to have a successfull or even an unsuccessful day-they're all successful-is an even greater delight.

  Jimmy Carter

  Successful, Good Friend, Hands

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• One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Life, Success, Education

  Malala Yousafzai's Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

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• How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Letters, Able

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.112, Random House

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• It's an illusion I've noticed before-- words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It only lasts while the words are in your head. After you put down the paper or pen, the pistons fall lifeless again.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Fall, Oxygen, Paper

  Elizabeth Wein (2013). “Rose Under Fire”, p.51, Egmont UK

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• read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Book, Weapons, Defeat

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• The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Book, Extremist, Women's Rights

  "Malala Yousafzai: 'Our books and our pens are the most powerful weapons'". www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2013.

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• Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Powerful, Book, July

  "The Full Text: Malala Yousafzai Delivers Defiant Riposte to Taliban Militants With Speech to the Un General Assembly". www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

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• Dumb. He should have gotten the pen. Jewelry was so public... and personal, which was why he'd bought it. He couldn't buy Eleanor a pen. Or a bookmark. He didn't have bookmarklike feelings for her.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Should Have, Dumb, Feelings

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.182, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Pride, Self, Doubt

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• Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Character, Half, Tongue

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.158

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• A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself he will write a Book; he has no Talent at Writing, but he wants fifty Guineas.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Book, Writing, Men

  "The Characters or Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de La Bruyère, Nicholas Rowe, Chapter XV, 1688.

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• Give us a man of God's own mould
  Born to marshall his fellow-men;
  One whose fame is not bought and sold
  At the stroke of a politician's pen.
  Give us the man of thousands ten,
  Fit to do as well as to plan;
  Give us a rallying-cry, and then
  Abraham Lincoln, give us a Man.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Men, Rallying Cry, Giving

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• A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Lost, Misused

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1905). “The Story of a Literary Career”

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• There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

  George Washington

  Men, Vanity, Littles

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.324

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• [When asked if the voice is an instrument:] Yes, of course. Some are violins, some are fountain pens and some are stethoscopes. And others are just washboards.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Voice, Violin, Fountain

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• My mind's monumental, my pen is penetration
  That produce words that bleed on the pad like menstruation

  Elzhi

  Mind, Pads, Penetration

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• i keep drinking the ink from my pen and i'm balancing history books up on my head but it all boils down to one quotable phrase if you love something give it away

  Conor Oberst

  Drinking, Book, Giving

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• Pen-and-paper role-playing is live theater and computer games are television. People want the convenience and instant gratification of turning on the TV rather than getting dressed up and going out to see a live play. In the same way, the computer is a more immediately accessible way to play games.

  Gary Gygax

  Games, Play, People

  "Dungeon Masters in Cyberspace" by Seth Schiesel, www.nytimes.com. February 27, 2006.

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• Perhaps, it is just as well to be rash and foolish for a while. If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would be written at all. It might be better to ask yourself "Why?" afterwards than before. Anyway, the force from somewhere in Space which commands you to write in the first place, gives you no choice. You take up the pen when you are told, and write what is commanded. There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Wise, Book, Writing

  "I Love Myself When I Am Laughing...and Then Again When I Am Looking Mean".

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• Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Inspirational, Motivational, Teacher

  "Malala Yousafzai says she will not be silenced by terrorism". "AM", www.abc.net.au. July 13, 2013.

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• Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence.

  Samuel Smiles

  Lying, Luck, Wish

  Samuel Smiles (1800). “Thrift”, p.176

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• I could buy myself paper, a pen, a pencil and a brush and could create pictures whenever and wherever I wanted. ... That evening, in the spring of 1947, on the embankment of the Seine in Paris, at the age of thirty, I saw that it was possible to live and work in the world, and that I could participate in the exchange of ideas that was taking place all around, bound to no country.

  Peter Weiss

  Country, Spring, Ideas

  Peter Weiss (1966). “Leavetaking: And , Vanishing Point”

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