Pens Quotes - Page 9

• Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Writing, Secret, Use

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• Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They burn in me; and they keep multiplying; but now they can't ever be said. And besides, they would require a library-and a pen warmed up in hell.

  Mark Twain

  Letting Go, Book, Writing

  Mark Twain (1929). “Mark Twain's Letters”, p.284, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal fortitude to cut out even the most brilliant passage so long as it doesn't advance the story.

  Frank Yerby

  Writing, Cutting, Knives

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• To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

  Henry Fielding

  Writing, Romance, Ink

  Henry Fielding (1821). “The novels of Henry Fielding ... complete in one volume. To which is prefixed, a memoir of the life of the author [by sir W. Scott].”, p.305

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• Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the poets pen for the grandest times are before us and the world is yet to see the noblest work of this old earth in the men that are to be.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Monday, Men, Age

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• The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing more.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Islamic, Men

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• The incessant driving of the pen over paper causes intense fatigue of the hand and the whole arm because of the continuous ... strain on the muscles and tendons.

  Bernardino Ramazzini

  Health, Hands, Paper

  Bernardino Ramazzini (1964). “Diseases of Workers”

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• Don't write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldn't be changed.

  Richard Hugo

  Writing, Giving, Ink

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• Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Writing, Kids, People

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• I come from a stupid family. My father worked in a bank. They caught him stealing pens.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Stupid, Father

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• The Holy Spirit ain't got a pen.

  Russell Brand

  Spirit, Holy Spirit, Holy

  "Russell Brand Interviews Two Members of the Westboro Baptist Church" by Jessica Bluemke, www.patheos.com. November 21, 2012.

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• People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem.

  Eminem

  Notebook, People, Asking

  "Eminem speaks out in favour of gay marriage" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2010.

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• Let me tell you what I look like: pale face, long hair, and a tiny start of a paunch. In addition, an awkward gait, and a cigar in the mouth and a pen in pocket or hand.

  Albert Einstein

  Hair, Hands, Long

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.77, Princeton University Press

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• I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but of the whole nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless and, as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it, and if I found the right words you must remember that I have always earned my living by my pen and by my tongue. It was a nation and race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Heart, Race

  Speech at Westminster Hall, London, 30 Nov. 1954

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• I guess when we're happy, it's easier to go with the flow, and when that happiness or joy is interrupted, that's when we get contemplative and break out the guitar or pen and write about it.

  Jeremy Fisher

  Writing, Guitar, Joy

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• I swear I have at least one good song idea a day. But if I don't get pen to paper in ten seconds, it's gone forever.

  Cary Ann Hearst

  Song, Writing, Ideas

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• I believe in the rest of the story. I believe there's still ink in the pen.... and someday all that's hazy through a clouded glass will be clear at last.

  Nichole Nordeman

  Faith, Believe, Inspiration

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• Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun, And some with a fountain pen.

  Woody Guthrie

  Gun, Men, Democracy

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• In a small Swiss city sits an international organization so obscure and secretive... Control of the institution, the Bank for International Settlements, lies with some of the world's most powerful and least visible men: the heads of 32 central banks, officials able to shift billions of dollars and alter the course of economies at the stroke of a pen.

  Keith Bradsher

  Money, Powerful, Lying

  "INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS; Obscure Global Bank Moves Into the Light". www.nytimes.com. August 5, 1995.

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• This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly.

  Lancelot Hogben

  Men, Age, Democracy

  Science for the Citizen (1938) epilogue

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• I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer's pen during his lifetime? At no time has this ennobled our history.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Life, Tasks, Bars

  "The Struggle Intensifies". Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's open letter to the Fourth Soviet Writers' Congress (May 16, 1967) as translated in "Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record" edited by Leopold Labedz, 1970.

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• There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

  Magic, Ink, Bottles

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• I lied. I need your help." "Who are we killing?" "Do you have a pen?

  Ilona Andrews

  Needs, Helping, Killing

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.29, Penguin

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• A part of society in our countries would still prefer an authoritarian regime today. These are people with the mentality of Homo sovieticus. But they also exist in France - just think of Le Pen - and even in Finland and Sweden.

  Adam Michnik

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In the recovery movement, they call what I'm talking about letting go and letting God. If you're uncomfortable with the word God, just add an o and make it Good. The two words are interchangeable. It just means allowing this divine source of kindness, beauty and creativity to be the dominant force in your life - whatever you're doing. I truly believe that God writes all the books and builds all the bridges. Sure, I sit down for six or seven hours a day with my pen and pads - but the message moves though me and I just allow.

  Wayne Dyer

  Letting Go, Kindness, Believe

  Source: www.drwaynedyer.com

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