Top 100 The Pen Quotes
#1. The paper is your canvas. The pen is your brush. Create your masterpiece.
#2. Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers. You are the truthsayer with quill and torch. Write with your tongues of fire. Don't let the pen banish you from yourself.
#3. You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.
#4. The pen may indeed be mightier than the sword, but the wordsmith would do well to welcome the blacksmith back into the fold, so that artisan craftsmanship the world over may fend off the ravages of industrialised homogeneity and bland monoculture.
#5. Reading fiction - excerpts from National Book Award finalists, winners of the Pen/O. Henry Prize for short stories, or even Amazon bestsellers - has been shown to enhance theory of mind:
#6. Some say that "the pen is mightier than the sword." I say "the keyboard is your machine gun.
#7. The pen is in your hands, the rest is still unwritten.
#8. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out. In a poem, the pen is more like a flashlight, a Geiger counter, or one of those metal detectors that people walk around beaches with.
#9. I tell him, and I write it down as I go. It makes me feel better, as if the weirdness is flowing out of my blood and onto the page, through the dark point of the pen
#10. 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.
#11. It is not the ink and the paper that matter, but the hand that holds the pen.
#12. Decisions are the privilege we've been granted to have a hand in penning the script of our lives. And in the writing, the question is not the availability of the paper or the pen. The question is the wisdom to use them rightly.
#13. The pen has shaken nations.
#14. There's Power in the Pen!
#15. You can call anyone you want a traitor as long as you're the one holding the pen.
#16. I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.
#17. A farmer slaughters his cattle because he must eat to survive, but he also protects the herd from thieves and predators. If you leave the pen, the wolves will find you, child.
#18. When all else fails, use the pen.
EMW
#19. Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the pen must come in to tighten it up.
#20. If I'm going to lose it, I want to be broken in right." The pen fell from Trenton's mouth to the floor, and he bent down to pick it up. "Uh . . . any, uh . . . any special font?
#21. The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is on my shoulders. Here is the pen and the paper; on the letters in the wire basket I sign my name, I, I, and again I.
#22. The ink in the pen that writes success stories is "FOCUS" ...
#23. The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
#24. I tried to write how I felt. The pen remained frozen. The paper stayed white and empty,
while my brain was dark and full
#25. 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.
#26. A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
#27. Waiting for the pen to dry up so he can start fresh with thoughts that are worth new ink.
#28. There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
#29. Papa loved Mama, Mama loved men, Mama's in the graveyard, Papa's in the pen.
#30. No, I like it ... a lot ... but that's a helluva tattoo for a virgin."
He popped the pen back in, freeing up his hand to move the mouse.
I smirked. "If I'm going to lose it, I want to be broken in right."
The pen fell from Trenton's mount to the floor.
#31. Never trust someone else to write your life story. Take the pen, and write it yourself.
#32. Only my characters truly know what's going on - I just hold the pen.
#33. When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
#34. John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth,and the life: no man cometh unto the Father,but by me.
Psalm 45:1
My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
#35. It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated.
#36. But it made her smile, to see it, to see how the pen formed the shapes and the shapes told a story of a name.
#37. There in seclusion and remote from men The wizard hand lies cold, Which at its topmost speed let fall the pen, And left the tale half told. Ah! who shall lift that wand of magic power, And the lost clew regain? The unfinished window in Aladdin's tower Unfinished must remain!
#38. The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.
#39. If the pen is mightier than the sword, then what is the laptop? A light saber or a life saver?
#40. You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
#41. She held up the pen and gave him a lazy grin. "It's a rose."
He came close. "It's a pen." He tried to pluck it from her hand.
"You are seriously lacking in imagination.
#42. What the pen was doing for Rohit right now, the paper
mobile phone did for Prabhu.
#43. the pen is as wise as the mind that speaks through it
#44. Harper, did you just ... did you just throw a pen at Liz?"
"Oh my gosh, no, Mrs. Ford! I was just ... um ... writing really fast because there was so much information to take in, and I had, like, some lotion? On my hands? Anyway the pen flew out of my hand and hit Liz
#45. The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.
#46. The power of the pen is landmark of life.
#47. Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.
#48. Our tongues can't compete with the rapid thinking of our brains, our words come out slow and slurred. The pen is our haven. There is a lot of fear buried into that little pen. It holds all of our agony, our torment, our blood and our heaven.
#49. Don't stop writing until someone pries the pen from your cold, dead hands.
#50. Elmo found, as have many, that the death of the heart corrupted the pen into writing a farrago of horrors and insanities, not necessarily the less true for their seeming extravagance, but inaccessible for the most part to the prudent.
#51. Be glad that I haven't take out the pen, the rubber and the pencil once taken... all will die.
#52. Did you know the pen is stronger than the knife: they can kill you once but they can't kill you twice.
#53. In a culture of silence Let the pen be your weapon The ink is permanent and can transcend emotions and stories across mediums into the future Weaponize your pen and destroy The culture of silence My
#54. Now that I know that each star has its path, each bird is finally feathered and grown in the unbroken shell, each tree in the seed, each song in the life laid down - is the night sky any less strange; should my glance less follow the flight; should the pen shake less in my hand.
#55. The eloquence of the pen is just as sharp as the point of a sword.
#56. Autobiography, we know, is flawed from the moment the nib of the pen touches the parchment.
#57. We have the power of the pen to write the next chapter, and the privilege to author the page in whatever fashion we choose. Yet, seldom do we understand the power of the pen and the privilege of the page.
#58. Whether written in the stars of the pages of a journal, a dream still blossoms from the heart of the person who possesses the pen.
#59. No one has invented a condom for the pen yet
#60. For hundreds of years the monks have held the pen, and what they have written is what we take to be our history, but I do not believe it really is. I believe they have suppressed the history they don't like, and written one that is favourable to Rome.' Henry
#61. In this day the breeze of God is wafted, and His Spirit hath pervaded all things. Such is the outpouring of His grace that the pen is stilled and the tongue is speechless.
#62. Is the pen really mightier than the sword? I suppose that depends on how sharp the pen is, and the strength of the warrior wielding it.
#63. You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand. ~
#64. I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.
#65. What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
#66. In fact, most of the changes found in early Christian manuscripts have nothing to do with theology or ideology. Far and away the most changes are the result of mistakes pure and simple slips of the pen, accidental omissions, inadvertent additions, misspelled words, blunders of one sort or another.
#67. I believe in the rest of the story. I believe there's still ink in the pen ... and someday all that's hazy through a clouded glass will be clear at last.
#68. The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
#69. The pen is a poor exchange for the long-barreled gun." "It does more execution, nevertheless,
#70. Mightier than the sword, the pen may be; but the tongue is mightiest of all.
#71. Write our own story; don't let anyone else hold the pen.
#72. I am intrigued by writers who garden and gardeners who write. The pen and the trowel are not interchangeable, but seem often linked.
#73. God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.
#74. The pen that was once a gift has come to represent all that I hope to achieve.
#75. The pen can be just as dangerous as a sword... At least while walking.
#76. Dumb. He should have gotten the pen. Jewelry was so public ... and personal, which was why he'd bought it. He couldn't buy Eleanor a pen. Or a bookmark. He didn't have bookmarklike feelings for her.
#77. And god damit,
I can barely say your name,
So I'll try to write it,
And fill the pen with blood from the sink.
#78. It happened in New York, April 10th, nineteen years ago. Even my hand balks at the date. I had to push to write it down, just to keep the pen moving on the paper. It used to be a perfectly ordinary day, but now it sticks up on the calendar like a rusty nail.
#79. The pen feels unnatural in my hand. It's so much weightier than pencil. Permanent. There are no erasers, in life. - Alexis Riggs
#80. Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results
#81. We let ourselves loose on that simple blank piece of paper, and our bodies spill. The terror, the love ... embodying our stories page after page. In a sense, the pen was our tongue, it is how we delineate the world.
#82. 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.
#83. Thoth, Hermes, the stylus,
the palette, the pen, the quill endure,
though our books are a floor
of smouldering ash under our feet.
#84. 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 +++
#85. Why can't I
quiet the thoughts
running through my head?
Put down the pen
and climb
snugly
into bed?
#86. 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.
#87. 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)
#88. 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.
#89. Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.
#90. The pen is my true salvation. God is not.
#91. There was power in the pen, I knew this for certain ... It was there all the time, just waiting for me.
#92. The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world.
#93. 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.
#94. 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.
#95. The pen is mightier than the sword - It's also easier to write with!
#96. 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.
#97. 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.
#98. 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.
#99. 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.
#100. 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.
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