Scrivener's Quotes

#1. I've put down my scrivener's pen. These days i prefer not to.

Mike Noonan

#2. There's always this thing of wanting to be elsewhere.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#3. A strange thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought
Upon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade,
Should find no burden but itself and yet should be worn out.
It could not bear that burden and therefore it went mad.

William Butler Yeats

#4. Odd how being away could teach you about home.

Cathy Pickens

#5. Everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#6. I know nothing," I say, cheerfully.
"You never seem to. Have you ever wondered why that is?"
"It's very deliberate. I've found that knowledge is usually a burden. I prefer to be surprised and then eventually horrified.

Matthew Norman

#7. God will never lead us down dark alleys, only lighted streets.

Kassi Pontious

#8. I want to see policies that encourage every American to vote, not make it more difficult to vote,

Colin Powell

#9. The truth is Fort Endeavor needs you." Confused, she shifted in her seat, darting a look at him. "I need you," he amended quietly. "Not just your services as scrivener. I need your goodness and gentleness and strength. Sometimes I think you're the only one I can trust, even above my own officers.

Laura Frantz

#10. Gradually I slid into the persuasion that these troubles of mine touching the scrivener, had been all predestinated from eternity, and Bartleby was billeted upon me for some mysterious purpose of an all-wise Providence, which it was not for a mere mortal like me to fathom.

Herman Melville

#11. Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. You'd have to be kind of a bonehead not to feel pressure.

Caroline Polachek

#13. It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

Eric Hoffer

#14. Jesus is not just what true divinity looks like. He is also what true humanity looks like.

Glen Scrivener

#15. Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

Vincent Canby

#16. Have you ever been torn between two impossibilities and knew in your heart that no matter which way you went or which path you chose that you were doomed to unhappiness?

Maya Banks

#17. It's never good to fall in love with someone whom you'd have to stab in the eyeballs to elicit a response.

Sloane Crosley

#18. If you make a Star Wars reference, everybody's familiar with that. It's a common reference that most people can relate to - Bartleby, The Scrivener, probably not so much.

Adam Reed

#19. Your employers evince great faith in your talents, Mr Ewing, to entrust you with business neccessitating such a long & arduous voyage. I replied that, yes, I was a senior enough notary to be entrusted with my present assignment, but a junior enough scrivener to be obligated to accept the same.

David Mitchell

#20. If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself.

John Prescott

#21. Scrivener is where I live. I'm planning the next novel, two screenplays and a couple of short stories with it and it's amazing how fluid the software makes the process. I genuinely think this is the biggest software advance for writers since the word processor.

Michael Marshall Smith

#22. My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

Merton Miller

#23. I have the instincts of a minstrel rather than those of a scrivener. There you have it. We are not of the same trade at all and so how can your rules fit me?

John Steinbeck