Pens Quotes - Page 39

• I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.

  A. S. Byatt

  Best Of Me, Possession, Creatures

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• Reparations,” said Jem very suddenly, setting down the pen he was holding. Will looked at him in puzzlement. “Is this a game? We just blurt out whatever word comes next to mind? In that case mine is ‘genuphobia’. It means an unreasonable fear of knees.” “What’s the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots?” inquired Jessamine.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Games, Mind

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.

  David Almond

  Song, Bird, Tree

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• Leop­ards break in­to the tem­ple and drink all the sac­ri­fi­cial ves­sels dry; it keeps hap­pen­ing; in the end, it can be cal­cu­lat­ed in ad­vance and is in­cor­po­rat­ed in­to the rit­ual.

  Franz Kafka

  Dry, Rats, Drink

  Franz Kafka (2015). “Aphorisms”, p.20, Schocken

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• There was a small wooden gazebo built out over the water; Isabelle was sitting in it, staring out across the lake. She looked like a princess in a fairy tale, waiting at the top of her tower for someone to ride up and rescue her. Not that traditional princess behavior was like Isabelle at all. Isabelle with her whip and boots and knives would chop anyone who tried to pen her up in a tower into pieces, build a bridge out of the remains, and walk carelessly to freedom, her hair looking fabulous the entire time.

  Cassandra Clare

  Princess, Lakes, Hair

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.547, Simon and Schuster

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• I take up my own pen again - the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To myself - today - I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.

  Henry James

  Struggle, Effort, Needs

  Henry James, F. O. Matthiessen, Kenneth B. Murdock (1981). “The Notebooks of Henry James”, p.179, University of Chicago Press

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• I handed the test in five minutes before the end of the day. Mrs. Baker took it calmly, then reached into her bottom drawer for an enormous red pen with a wide felt tip. "Stand here and we'll see how you've done," she said, which is sort of like a dentist handing you a mirror and saying, "Sit here and watch while I drill a hole in your tooth.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Mirrors, The End Of The Day, Bakers

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Found one of my old journals. from right around the time we were heading out on tour with NFG in the UK early 2008. i started reading it and couldn't help but cry a little bit. cause that person was really confused. and very lost. and as it went on, the person behind the pen seemed to get a little bit stronger.. that part felt good. it was the reminder that i needed that right now i'm as strong as ever. there really isn't a point to telling you all of this. except maybe i want to thank you. cause you are a constant reminder. that i'm not as lost as i once was.

  Hayley Williams

  Strong, Confused, Reading

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• She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery.

  David Nicholls

  Notebook, Coffee, Believe

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.104, Hachette UK

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• Your problem, it is not here' - he pointed the pen at Max-Ernest's throat - 'it is here' - he pointed the pen at Max-Ernest's chest. 'My heart is heavy, too. But you must be strong. This situation, it is very serious. It is not only Cass's life that is at stake. If she dies, the Secret, it will die too.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Strong, Heart, Secret

  Pseudonymous Bosch (2012). “This Isn't What It Looks Like: The Secret Series”, p.34, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Hands, Female, Tongue

  1678 Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning,'The Prologue'.

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• When I have fears that I may ceace to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teaming brain".

  John Keats

  Death, Brain, May

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• The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

  Stephen King

  Kings, Writing, Fool

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• But when I took up my pen, my hand made big, jerky letters like those of a child, and the lines sloped down the page from left to right horizontally, as if they were loops of string lying on the paper, and someone had come along and blown them askew.

  Sylvia Plath

  Children, Lying, Hands

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• [E]very plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dénouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with the dénouement constantly in view that we can plot its indispensable air of consequence, or causation, by making the incidents, and especially the tone at all points tend to the development of the intention.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Air, Views, Names

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works”, p.243, My Ebook Publishing House

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