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"My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane."
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"You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen."
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"I wear my Pen as others do their Sword."
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"With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed."
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"My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane."
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"I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom."
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"The pen is mightier than the sword."
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"I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to write a letter from wherever we landed."
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"If you want a transcript of tonight's program, get a pen and write down everything I said."
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"To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine."
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"The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with."
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"Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline."
Success
"A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit."
Spirit
"Heresy is another word for freedom of thought."
Thought
"A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction."
Truth
"It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself."
Life
"Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years."
End
"The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths."
Truth
"Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered."
Wisdom
"The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn."
Economy
"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."
Thought
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