Quotes About Nib

#1. The gift of phrase was instantaneous to him in him, and that must partly account for his huge output; but there was a plentitude of mind as well as a swiftness of phrase to help him; he never put a nib wrong.

Jocelyn Gibb

#2. I give thanks for the fact that I can get this stick with a bit of steel nib on the end, dip it in some black carbon stuff, and draw on paper. Now, people did it the same way 2,000 years ago. And there's something lovely about that play, and making mud pies and a mess. That's a lovely privilege.

Michael Leunig

#3. ... your writer of intensities must have very black ink, and a very big pen, with a very blunt nib.

Edgar Allan Poe

#4. your pen sticks upright by the nib in the carpet. If there were a cat to swing or a wife to murder now would be the time. So

Virginia Woolf

#5. I write into an old book that smells of dust and whose pages are floppy with damp. Sometimes the ink splodges onto the paper, other times it will barely leave the nib of my pen.

Fennel Hudson

#6. I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.

James Robertson

#7. Autobiography, we know, is flawed from the moment the nib of the pen touches the parchment.

Zia Haider Rahman

#8. Happy the man ... with a natural gift
for practising the right one [art] from the start
poetry, say, or fishing; whose nights are dreamless;
whose deep-sunk panoramas rise and pass
like daylight through the rod's eye or the nib's eye.

Seamus Heaney

#9. Temptation was the color white. It was black ink, quivering at the point of a pen's nib.

Marie Rutkoski

#10. I cannot wait for her to stop being a teenager." "I can," Nib said. "Do you know how impossible it's going to be to boss her around when she's twenty?

Becky Chambers

#11. Never interrupt an author when he or she is 'in the zone', else you'll understand the real meaning of 'writer's nib'.

Fennel Hudson

#12. Ninety percent of all problems are caused by people being assholes."
"What causes the other ten percent?" asked Kizzy.
"Natural disasters," said Nib.

Becky Chambers

#13. Writers, in essence, are professional word tamers; if the words walking down the lines were living creatures, they would surely fear and hate the pen's nib as tamed animals do the raised whip.

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

#14. I feel as if I can think only when I see the words flowing from the nib of my quill, that my thoughts make sense only when they are black ink on cream paper. I love the sensation of a thought in my head and the vision of the word on the page.

Philippa Gregory

#15. Doomed to practice it day after day, even to the extent of dipping his nib in orange juice to make the words invisible, he has fallen in love with secrecy.

Paul West

#16. There's only two ways to be completely alone in this world, lost in a crowd or in total isolation ...

Jeff Lemire

#17. I don't make any pretence of knowing about the existence of a Supreme Entity, neither do I make any attempt to create any friction among religions. If anything, I have spared myself no pains in my endeavor to smoothen the ongoing friction among all religions of the world.

Abhijit Naskar

#18. I can pretend to be brave, but I'm not

Veronica Roth

#19. Do I make you nervous?" He asked.
I shook my head.
He pulled me back slightly, looked me in the eye, and smiled.
"Liar."
And then he kissed me.

Kate Brian

#20. Stay down! Wolf yelled, pushing Scarlet to the ground and hunkering over her body. A living shield. His instinct was still there, at least. The desire to protect her above all else. That was all the confirmation she needed. Feeling

Marissa Meyer

#21. The risk exists that, with aggregate demand exhibiting considerable momentum, output could overshoot its sustainable path, leading ultimately in the absence of countervailing monetary policy action to further upward pressure on inflation.

Ben Bernanke

#22. I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.

Mae Jemison

#23. Heterosexual marriage is the heart of our civilization.

Newt Gingrich

#24. There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.

James Levine

#25. It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy, a man unprepared for introspection, think for the first time in his life, what he wanted to do, and what he stood for.

Jack Newfield

#26. The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not); it is that they are boastful about those particular things which nobody can boast of without losing them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton