“I am a galley slave to pen and ink.”
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
Je suis un galérien de plume et d'encre.
Letter to Zulma Carraud (2 July 1832), translated by C. Lamb Kenney.
Quoted in The Truth About Putin and Medvedev http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21353, last annual press conference. <br class="br">2006- 2010
“I am a galley slave to pen and ink.”
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
Je suis un galérien de plume et d'encre.
Letter to Zulma Carraud (2 July 1832), translated by C. Lamb Kenney.
Gyles Brandreth (1948) British writer, broadcaster and former Member of Parliament
WhatsonStage interview, 2010
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer
Letter to Leonard Woolf (28 March 1941), from The Virginia Woolf Reader (1984) edited by Mitchell A. Leaska, p. 369, ISBN 0156935902
Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922) scientist and inventor known for his work on the telephone
Bell Telephone Talk (1901)
Mark Tully (1935) British journalist
Source: Peter Victor, " Tully quits BBC http://www.independent.co.uk/news/tully-quits-bbc-1412865.html," The Independent, 10 July 1994
Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) French painter
Quote of Pissarro, from Osny, February 1884, in a letter to his son Lucien; in Camille Pissarro - Letters to His Son Lucien ed. John Rewald, with assistance of Lucien Pissarro; from the unpublished French letters; transl. Lionel Abel; Pantheon Books Inc. New York, second edition, 1943, p. 61
1880's
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2007 CNN interview, reported in Zeke J. Miller, " When Donald Trump Praised Hillary Clinton http://time.com/3962799/donald-trump-hillary-clinton/", Time Magazine (July 17, 2015). <br class="br">2000s
David Lange (1942–2005) New Zealand politician and 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand
Source: Gliding on the Lino: The Wit of David Lange, compiled by David Barber, 1987.