George Canning Quotes

To hold a pen is to be at war.

I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.

Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

I'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really that simple.

Here no one fears to die in war … keep this in mind, you princes who would attack Tenochtitlan.

In this age there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war. We must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

The nation is too brave, too strong, too powerful, and too just to engage in an unrighteous and precipitate war.

See this pen! I can end your lives with a stroke of this pen!

The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

When you're a writer and you're an adult, that's something you crave - that limitless imagination and love for worlds that don't exist that you can create.

With a pencil and paper, I could revise the world.

The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in the blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up.

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.

Without a pen in my hand I can't think.

I used to go outside every day and invent these elaborate worlds and scenarios in my head, and when I grew too old for playing pretend, I started to write everything down instead.

In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Since I was a kid, I could make up stories, I could make up funny jokes and I could always do it. When I'm walking down the street or having dinner, ideas will hit me, and I write them down on matchbooks or napkins and throw them in the draw.

I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create fabric in the world that often appears black and white. I write to meet my ghosts. I write to begin a dialogue. I write to imagine things differently and in imagining things differently perhaps the world will change.

I think a diversity of expression can only be good, so I think the more that people write about their experience, use their imagination to deal with their experience, you know, I think that's going to be good for not only for those authors but also for people who are interested in trying to understand it.