Pens Writing Quotes

#1. When I asked him how this cramping might affect his sword arm, he assured me it was only the narrow grip of the writing instruments that troubled him.
"If we fought with pens," he said, "I would be forced to fall upon mine.

Andrew Levkoff

#2. I take pride in using fountain pens. They represent craftsmanship and a love of writing. Biros, on the other hand, represent the throwaway culture of modern society, which exists on microwave ready-meals and instant coffee.

Fennel Hudson

#3. [Hannah:] Here is to Rylie Cates: May your pens never run out of ink, your computer never run out of power, and your brain never run out of brilliant ideas.

Jessica Lave

#4. I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a fountain pen, a Parker fountain pen, and I loved it, and I've never liked writing anything with pencils or ball-points.

Tony Kushner

#5. I hate writing, I hate pens and paper and all that fussiness. I have done well enough without it too, I think. Oh, I am lying to myself. I have feared writing. But books have saved me sometimes, that is the truth - my Samaritans.

Sebastian Barry

#6. We write or we are written upon. The whole of our lives is the clumsy attempt to wield the pen with grace.

Vincent Louis Carrella

#7. It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through
a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#8. Writing with a biro is the emotional equivalent of giving your loved one a plastic rose on Valentine's Day.

Fennel Hudson

#9. I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.

James Robertson

#10. And if all the trees on earth were pens and the ocean [were ink], with seven
oceans behind it to add to its [supply], yet would not the words of Allah be
exhausted [in the writing]: for Allah is Exalted in Power, full of Wisdom.

Anonymous

#11. The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.

Aristide Briand

#12. People represented in book or film travel vast oceans of life unrecorded; studeo time costs money, and pens grow heavy.

Adrian Lamo

#13. To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

Henry Fielding

#14. The publishers, as I remember at the very beginning of my career, wrote letters with their fountain pens. A letter is different from a phone call or fax. It's a different kind of intimacy. That pervaded the entire business of writing and publishing.

James Salter

#15. I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase.

Todd Barry

#16. For a perfect holiday I need my iPhone and my writing tools. I write all my books by hand so black felt pens and yellow legal pads are a must. And my eyebrow pencil. I'm very low-maintenance.

Jackie Collins

#17. It was written in a red felt marker, and his first thought was that it was from Sarah, though it didn't look like a girl's writing. A girl would make it pretty, with kisses and smiley faces, and she would do it in colored pens and make an envelope as well.

Todd Young

#18. Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.

Baltasar Gracian

#19. We need deliberately to call to mind the joys of our journey. Perhaps we should try to write down the blessings of one day. We might begin; we could never end; there are not pens or paper enough in all the world.

George Arthur Buttrick

#20. Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a portrait of Jesus.

John Clayton

#21. Pen-bereavement is a serious matter.

Anne Fadiman

#22. And write whatever Time shall bring to pass
With pens of adamant on plates of brass.

John Dryden

#23. Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those novels today, and if we're sensitive to them, we respond to them with an immediacy that is stronger than anything written today on a word processor.

Walter Murch

#24. I don't use any fance quill pens or pads, because I can't read my own handwriting. I just use whatever computer is laying around, and start writing.

Mitch Albom

#25. I write exclusively using computers. Pens and typewriters can fsck right off - I wrote my first half million words in my teens on a manual typewriter (had to trade it for a new one due to keys snapping from metal fatigue) so I am not a pen or typewriter fetishist.

Charles Stross

#26. We produced a bundle of pens, a copious supply of ink, and a goodly show of writing and blotting paper. For there was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationary.

Charles Dickens

#27. This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.

Peter Greenaway