{"quotes":[{"text":"What is in the pencil is greater than what is around it. The talents in you are greater than the environment surrounding you. Your potentials will change your environment.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["achieve","believe","believe-and-achieve","change","christ-in-you","environment","food-for-thought","gift","gifts","israelmore-ayivor","pencil","potential","potentials","surrounding","talent","talents"],"id":15516,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.","author":"Balthus","tags":["eyes","pencil","always "],"id":52037,"author_id":"Balthus"},{"text":"A poetess is not as selfishas you assume.After months of agonising over her marriage of words—the bride—and spaces—the groom,she knows that as soonas she has penned the poem,it’s yours to consume.So, without giving it a think,she blows on the inkand the letters fly awaylike dandelions on a windy day,landing on hands and lips, on hearts and hips.But more often than not,you can easily spotthem trodden and forgotten,becoming sodden and rotten.Yet, she will continue to makewhat’s others to takebecause selfishness is not the mark of a poetess.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["agonise","agonising","assume","bride","cadence","consume","creative-writing","creativity","dandelion","erase","fly","forgotten","groom","hands","heart","hips","ink","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","letter","letters","lips","mark","marriage","months","novelist","page","paper","pen","pencil","penned","poems-on-writing","poet","poetess","poetry","quote","on-writing","rhyme","rotten","selfish","selfishness","silences","sodden","spaces","think","trodden","windy","word","words","write","writer","writing","written","wrote"],"id":52245,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"A pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.","author":"J. A. Meyer","tags":["books","dream","pencil","writing-books"],"id":60800,"author_id":"J.+A.+Meyer"},{"text":"So many people spend years (and money) studying to be doctors, lawyers, actors, dancers, business executives and scientists - when you're an author, you can be any of these things, and you don't need a degree or certificate; all you need is an imagination, a dream and an open mind.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["business-executive","career","doctor","dream","freedom","goal","imagination","job","jump","lawyer","pencil","pretend","school","study","typewriter","vision","write"],"id":60946,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"And speaking of this wonderful machine:[840] I’m puzzled by the difference between, the kind Which goes on solely in the poet’s mind,A testing of performing words, while he,The other kind, much more decorous, whenHe’s in his study writing with a pen. In method B the hand supports the thought,The abstract battle is concretely fought.The pen stops in mid-air, then swoops to bar[850] A canceled sunset or restore a star,And thus it physically guides the phraseToward faint daylight through the inky maze. Is agony! The brainIs soon enclosed in a steel cap of pain.A muse in overalls directs the drill Which grinds and which no effort of the willCan interrupt, while the automatonIs taking off what he has just put on Or walking briskly to the corner store [860] To buy the paper he has read before.","author":"Vladimir Nabokov","tags":["good-verse","literature","paper","pen","pencil","teaching","writing"],"id":91648,"author_id":"Vladimir+Nabokov"},{"text":"In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.","author":"Vincent Van Gogh","tags":["drawing","rise","pencil "],"id":108897,"author_id":"Vincent+Van+Gogh"},{"text":"Life is like a painting. Imagine it, hit and try drawing with the pencil of first steps, fill in the colors of happiness, correct the mistakes with eraser of love and forgiveness; thus, one dream project is accomplished. Create such masterpieces just like that.","author":"Vikrmn","tags":["ca-vikram-verma","chartered-accountant","colors","corpkshetra","corporate","drawing","dream","imagine","life","masterpiece","mistakes","motivational","painting","pencil","vikram","vikram-verma","vikrmn","vvck"],"id":120588,"author_id":"Vikrmn"},{"text":"College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.","author":"Ruby Wax","tags":["college","pencil","degree "],"id":146385,"author_id":"Ruby+Wax"},{"text":"And speaking of this wonderful machine:[840] I’m puzzled by the difference b.","author":"Vladimir Nabokov","tags":["good-verse","literature","paper","pen","pencil","teaching","writing"],"id":150814,"author_id":"Vladimir+Nabokov"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}