Top 100 Quotes About Pen
#1. Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.
Sinclair Lewis
#3. Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.
Bill Moyers
#4. Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.
John Philip Sousa
#5. Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page.
They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day.
Dreams are only memories of the plans I had back then.
Dreams are eraser dust and now I use a pen.
Edgar Allan Poe
#6. Writers are in many ways like demi-gods. With one stroke of a pen they can give life to a character, or strike them from existence, with nary a twinge of grief at their passing.
Steven Lake
#7. The letters from the ink in my pen are an absurd map of magic signs.
Fernando Pessoa
#8. It is with a heavy heart that I take up my pen to write these the last words in which I shall ever record the singular gifts by which my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes was distinguished. In
Arthur Conan Doyle
#9. The only way to compose myself and collect my thoughts," he wrote in his diary,"is to set down at my table, place my diary before me, and take my pen into my hand.
David McCullough
#10. When I'm a teacher, I won't be using red pens to grade papers. Red pens will forever be associated with criticism and bad grades in my mind. I don't want this person to get their short story back with harsh red pen marks all over it. Purple is much friendlier.
Susane Colasanti
#11. I keep drinking the ink from my pen and i'm balancing history books up on my head but it all boils down to one quotable phrase if you love something give it away
Conor Oberst
#12. Thoth, Hermes, the stylus,
the palette, the pen, the quill endure,
though our books are a floor
of smouldering ash under our feet.
Hilda Doolittle
#13. MIND TELLING US WHAT THE REALITY IS LIKE ROUND HERE?" The pen wrote: +++ On A Scale Of One To Ten - Query +++ "FINE," Ridcully shouted. +++ Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot +++
Terry Pratchett
#14. I've invaded the walls of the asylums with my ink pen. The way they look at mental illness won't be the same again
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#15. Like a warrior in the battlefield, a writer must endeavour to use his pen to stamp the paper with his identity.
Ogwo David Emenike
#16. Every sword that was dripping the blood became a pen. Every word that was written in it became a poetry.
Akshay Vasu
#17. You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then.
John Lydon
#18. Why can't I
quiet the thoughts
running through my head?
Put down the pen
and climb
snugly
into bed?
Amanda Leigh
#19. You can borrow my Blackbird, if you like,' said Ben. This was his new fountain pen, which troubled him. It was guaranteed not to leak but writers and schoolchildren knew better. Ben wished to be relieved of the responsibility of the Blackbird, without losing his own dignity.
Penelope Fitzgerald
#20. The pen is a poor exchange for the long-barreled gun." "It does more execution, nevertheless,
Frederick Marryat
#21. I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct.
Lake Bell
#22. Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.
Maya Angelou
#23. I often wonder, with my hand on my heart, if 'The Dying Hours' was made into the biggest movie franchise in history, would I pick up my pen again? Wouldn't I be happier spending the rest of my life travelling around with my wife?
Mark Billingham
#24. Lyrical lecture, word architecture,
Rap director, the best in my sector.
Microphone cool chief, releasin the smooth speech ...
I get nasty with a pen and some loose leaf.
Lord Finesse
#25. My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard.
Judah Halevi
#26. Be empty
and weep with the fullness of the reed flute.
Be empty
and discover the mysteries of the reed pen.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#27. A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.
John Adams
#29. Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.
Carla H. Krueger
#30. The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.
Philip Schaff
#33. With feelings of gratitude for all that is good in this world, I put down my pen. Well, I'll be leaving now.
Satoshi Kon
#34. Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.
Seamus Heaney
#35. A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing.
Karl Kraus
#37. Butterflies doing strange things in very beautiful ways were in my mind when I sat down, but by the time my pen was uncapped my thoughts had shifted to rocks.
William Beebe
#38. Maybe it really was a spirit," Pen offers.
"Spirits aren't real," he says. "The living invent them to console themselves. If you girls ever see a spirit, you'll know for certain you're alive."
Pen crinkles her nose. "Well that's grim.
Lauren DeStefano
#39. Revenge writing is a female genre. Men who have been left by women or made cuckolds by rivals either lick their wounds in humiliated silence or start the Trojan Wars. Having no other power or public voice, the betrayed woman reaches for her pen.
Frances Wilson
#40. On a whim, I picked up a pen and flipped to the last page of the diary and wrote our names.
Alina Starkov
Maylen Oretsev
I wasn't sure why I did it. I just needed to say we had been there.
Leigh Bardugo
#41. And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper the only sounds to break the silence between quarter- and quarter-chime.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#42. Marine Le Pen may want me dead, that's possible, but she must not count on my co-operation
Jean-Marie Le Pen
#43. The weakest ink is better than the best memory. Study with pen in hand.
Adrian Rogers
#44. I want to learn. I deserve to read and write. Thoughts for company, and a pen for a voice. Who is more entitled to those privileges than I?
Julie Berry
#45. The other dragons craned over the pen walls, watching him cautiously. There was another distant gastric roar. Errol shifted painfully. The dragons exchanged glances. Then, one by one, they lay down carefully on the floor and put their paws over their eyes.
Terry Pratchett
#46. In other words you disappear, you become one with your words, not separate, and when you put your pen down, the you who was writing is gone.
Natalie Goldberg
#47. There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.
Natalie Goldberg
#48. If everyone took his pen and wrote just anything that came on his mind, we would greatly help researchers to understand how our minds work
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#49. People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#50. O white-robed Angel, guide my timorous hand to write as on a lofty rock with iron pen the words of truth, that all who pass may read.
William Blake
#51. The pen is mightier than the sword - It's also easier to write with!
Benny Hill
#52. I love writing thank-you notes. There's something very nostalgic to me about the feel of a card and putting pen to paper. How many times in our lives are we required to put pen to paper anymore?
Taylor Swift
#53. Boy, you ain't a poet ...
just a drunk with a pen.
Hayes Carll
#54. I feel that the act of writing, in and of itself, is a tool towards probing that which you wouldn't without that pen in your hand. It's a strange, almost neurological phenomenon, and the words seem to generate more words - but only when you're writing. You can't do it in your head.
Paul Auster
#55. I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#56. The pen is mightier than the paving-stone
Oscar Wilde
#57. A frequent exchange of text messages is not a relationship. It's not even a pen-pal.
Ethlie Ann Vare
#58. As long as your pen is moving, you are exploring. As soon as it stops, you are thinking. Danger zone!
Ellen Sandler
#59. You have a great advantage as a writer, Monsieur,' said Poirot. 'You can relieve your feelings by expedient of the printed word. You have the power of the pen over your enemies.
Agatha Christie
#60. And the next time I reach for my pen,
it won't be to write about you again.
The sun will feel warm on my skin once more,
and I will get drunk on the colors of the sky
instead of tasting hangovers dripping from strangers' lips.
Sade Andria Zabala
#61. Like a bird, my thoughts were flying away so I became a writer to cage my thoughts with paper and pen. You should not call me a writer but rather a catcher of thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#62. Victor Hugo: If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
Ayn Rand
#63. When you're taking a fence on a horse, you don't think much; your body does all the thinking, and you're over or you're not over. It's much the same when you are doing a tricky thing with a pen. There are times when I'm writing very, very fast.
Patrick O'Brian
#64. Read in the name of your Lord Who created. He created man from a clot.Read and your Lord is Most Honorable, Who taught (to write) with the pen. Taught man what he knew not.
Anonymous
#65. Go into the largest livestock operation, search out the darkest and tiniest stall or pen, single out the filthiest, most forlorn little lamb or pig or calf, and that is one of God's creatures you're looking at, morally indistinguishable from your beloved Fluffy or Frisky.
Matthew Scully
#66. Of all cold words of tongue or pen, the worst are these: I knew him when -
Arthur Guiterman
#67. She brought the box back into the dining room and showed it to Emery. "Which ones go here?"
Amusement touched his eyes - that seemed to be their preferred emotion - and he took the pen and paper from her, finishing the last three symbols himself as he chewed.
Charlie N. Holmberg
#68. It looked something like a pen wiper and something like a piece of hearth-rug. A second and keener inspection revealed it as a Pekinese puppy.
P.G. Wodehouse
#69. How is your handwriting?" I ask. "Do you write in pencil or pen?" They stare back at me with squinting eyes and a look that needs no words. "Get with it granddad.
Fennel Hudson
#70. Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#71. If God is going to write your loves story, He's going to first need your pen.
Eric Ludy
#72. Me? I'm just a literary girl gone wrong. Slow with the tongue. Quick with the pen. Undeniably cute. But, on the whole, ill-equipped for the privilege of living.
Koren Zailckas
#73. Or like a poet woo the Moon,
Riding an armchair for my steed,
And with a flashing pen harpoon
Terrific metaphors of speed.
Roy Campbell
#74. The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world.
Anthony Liccione
#75. Dalton Fury is my subject's pen name;
Anonymous
#76. Ireland is a wonderful place to write in. Even although the atmosphere was so Faith-laden that I was often worried that I was not writing a book to the glory of God, I had to admit that words flowed from my pen like all-get-out. To be honest, there is nothing to do in Ireland but write.
Nancy Spain
#77. Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what it's writing, or the ball can guess where it's going next.
Rumi
#78. I believe, sir,' said Richard Swiveller, taking his pen out of his mouth, 'that you desire to look at these apartments. They are very charming apartments, sir. They command an uninterrupted view of - of over the way, and they are within one minute's walk of - of the corner of the street.
Charles Dickens
#79. Even the most deft pen is a clumsy tool.
Alex Ebert
#80. There was power in the pen, I knew this for certain ... It was there all the time, just waiting for me.
Shay Youngblood
#81. All he's done since then is poke me with his pen." "Probably because he wants to poke you with something else," she said dryly. My eyes bugged. "I can't believe you said that.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#82. Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!
Saadi
#84. Everybody got to write you - but when you graduated, you got to write yourself. At graduation you got to collect your teacher's pens and your parents' pens and you got your own pen.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#85. My pen is my sword, my faith is my shield, my love is my armour.
Jason J. Black
#86. Mrs. Scott, do you mind my asking why the alarm wasn't on?" This was from Mayhew. He had taken out a notebook and pen. His shoulders were hunched, as if someone had asked him to mimic a character from a Raymond Chandler novel.
Karin Slaughter
#87. I don't mean it to sound egomaniacal, but in a way, for me, it was very useful to imagine that I was the only one who was taking pen in hand. I'd always been told that it was impossible to be published, so I was writing only for myself.
Jane Hamilton
#88. Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.
Mark Twain
#89. We all know the old expression, "I'll work my thoughts out on paper." There's something about the pen that focuses the brain in a way that nothing else does. That is why we must have more writing in the schools, more writing in all subjects, not just in English classes.
David McCullough
#90. Then I decided I couldn't just crawl in the corner and die, so I started putting pen to paper and wrote some songs. I had no idea what for or who I was going to work with. I tried to find my way and direction.
Glenn Tipton
#91. She had an unequalled gift, usually pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into opportunities.
Henry James
#92. She was witchy, yes, and in charge of a cauldron roiling with ideas and stories, but she always gave the impression that the stories, the ones she wrote and wrote so very well and so wisely, had simply happened, and that all she had done was to hold the pen. (On Diana Wynne Jones)
Neil Gaiman
#93. I think it says wonders about people that can write an entire album, and put out an entire album of great songs. I mean, the Brad Paisley's, Alan Jackson especially, even Taylor Swift - those people can really pen great stuff.
Joe Nichols
#94. Nas is one of the Greatest Ever. Never has and never will need a ghostwriter. That man's pen and legacy is without question.
Jay Electronica
#95. We exist to exhibit God, to display his glory. We serve as canvases for his brush stroke, papers for his pen, soil for his seeds, glimpses of his image.
Max Lucado
#96. When it's time for you to write how you want your life to go just write right before your pen run out of ink because i know the opportunity is jusT once and if u miss it, then you hustle very hard to get it
Efiba Progress
#98. I have often believed the pen to be a needle, and ink to be a thread. Each story is an intricately woven tapestry and with each word I invariably sew a piece of myself into the page.
Shaun Hick
#99. Genius does not need to be validated, it just needs a legal pad and a pen.
Tom Althouse
#100. The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten.
Bob Dylan
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