Pen Trade

Famous quotes containing the words pen and/or trade:

“Translate a book a dozen times from one language to another, and what becomes of its style? Most books would be worn out and disappear in this ordeal. The pen which wrote it is soon destroyed, but the poem survives.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.”
—W.R. (William Ralph)