Famous quotes containing the words pen and/or trade:
“Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.”
—Terry Eagleton (b. 1943)
“Though in the trade of war I have slain men,
Yet do I hold it very stuff o the conscience
To do no contrived murder. I lack iniquity
Sometimes to do me service.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)