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Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a paper or a computer for a couple of years, is a very solitary occupation. You can read sales figures - a hundred thousand books sold, half a million books sold - but they are just numbers.

Neil Gaiman

Couple, Book, Writing

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Niggers are killing niggers, and penitentiaries are full of niggers and Mexicans. Why don't y'all give us some money to help us stop this problem? We want to go to college instead of going to the pen. Give us a future.

Snoop Dogg

College, Giving, Want

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Marine Le Pen may want me dead, that's possible, but she must not count on my co-operation

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Marine, May, Want

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Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Winning, Independence, Majestic

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.104, Beacon Press

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Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Kids, Whales, Earth

"Free the killer whale" by Jane Velez-Mitchell, www.cnn.com. February 26, 2010.

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How can I describe how much I love you? Is it even possible to describe a love like that? I don’t know, but as I sit here with pen in hand, I know that I have to try.

Nicholas Sparks

Love You, Hands, Trying

Nicholas Sparks (2013). “Safe Haven”, p.144, Hachette UK

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The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in the blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up.

E. B. White

Writing, Wings, Bird

"The Elements of Style" by William Strunk, Jr., E. B. White, (Ch. V), 1972.

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Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.

Rumi

Writing, Heart, Eyelashes

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If I haven't anything to write, I am just as anxious to 'take my pen in hand' as though I had a message to deliver, a cause to plead, or a problem to unfold. Nothing but writing rests me; only then do I seem completely myself!

Kate Douglas Wiggin

Writing, Hands, Messages

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Sometimes, the best songs are the ones you write without any pen and paper or audio recording device or guitar in your hands. Because there's nothing between you and the melody; it's just a great lyric.

Jon Foreman

Song, Writing, Guitar

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To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.

Denis Diderot

Women, Butterfly, Dust

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My bag hit the floor, spilling overpriced books and pens across the shiny floor. My pens! My glorious pens rolled everywhere.

J. Lynn

Book, Bags, Spilling

J. Lynn (2013). “Wait for You (Wait For You, Book 1)”, p.1, HarperCollins UK

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Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem "Digging

Seamus Heaney

Gun, Digging, Thumbs

Seamus Heaney (2009). “Death of a Naturalist”, Faber & Faber

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Open platforms and experimental amateurs eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros. Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a good strategy. They're apt to take all the stuff that makes their products great and try to use technology to charge you extra for it, or prohibit it altogether.

Cory Doctorow

Technology, Trying, Stuff

"Why I Won't Buy an iPad (And Think You Shouldn't, Either)". boingboing.net. April 02, 2010.

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Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had not desecrated by underlining her favorite sections with a ball-point pen. Once I had told her that I would rather see a museum bombed than a book underlined, but she dismissed my argument as mere sentimentality. She marked her books so that stunning images and ideas would not be lost to her.

Pat Conroy

Book, Museums, Ideas

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Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. They seem to be incapable of that abandon which is the requisite condition of social pleasure; and bent upon winning a tribute of admiration, or some hint which they can turn to the account of pen-craft, there is seldom in their company any of the delightful unconsciousness which harmonizes a circle.

Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Winning, Circles, Hints

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What happens to me if this slipper fits?" "I turn you into a handsome frog.

Judith McNaught

Hands, Frogs, Fit

Judith McNaught (2016). “Double Standards”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may teach.

Criss Jami

Art, Vacation, Mind

Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.40, Criss Jami

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if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.

J. G. Holland

Doubt, Mind, Flax

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God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Heart, Paint, Brushes

"Your Occasional Pope" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. April 29, 2015.

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As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.

Natalie Goldberg

Live Life, Writing, Second Chance

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For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins Shall forth at vast of night that they may work All exercise on thee. Thou shalt be pinched As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging Than bees that made 'em.

William Shakespeare

Exercise, Night, Ems

William Shakespeare, Virginia Mason Vaughan, Alden T. Vaughan (1999). “The Tempest: Third Series”, p.173, Cengage Learning EMEA

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A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventfulthen, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.

William Allingham

Book, Men, Hands

William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”

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Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power.

Matthew Arnold

Nature, Writing, Hands

Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.771, Delphi Classics

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And down the dunes a thousand guns lie crouched,Unseen, beside the flood -Like tigers in some Orient jungle crouchedThat wait and watch for blood.Meanwhile, through streets still echoing with trade,Walk grave and thoughtful men,Whose hands may one day wield the patriot's bladeAs lightly as the pen.

Henry Timrod

Lying, Men, Gun

Henry Timrod, “Charleston”

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