"To hold a pen is to be..." - Quote by Voltaire
To hold a pen is to be at war.
More by Voltaire
“It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.”
“A small number of choice books are sufficient.”
“All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws”
More on Writing
“There are terrific TV shows now. This is a golden age for TV humor, I think. There's an actual market there. Of course, I have no idea how you'd break in, but there must be a way. They have all these shows and they need jokes and somebody is writing them.”
“I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.”
“Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.”
More on Conflict
“I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.”
“So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.”
“Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.”