Top 100 Your Pen Quotes
#1. If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
Martin Luther
#2. Never let anyone use your toothbrush or your pen. -Author Wllm Worth
Wllm Worth
#3. You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you
Bret Easton Ellis
#4. Hone your writing skills as if they were your finest weapons of war. For in the literary arena, your pen will truly be your sword.
Max Hawthorne
#5. Devon: "Why, Bryn, I do believe he's given her your pen."
Bryn: "Well, get Freud on the phone. He'll have a field day with this one.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#6. There's a friend at the end of your pen which you can use to help you solve personal or business problems, get to know all the different parts of yourself, explore your creativity, heal your relationships, develop your intuition
Kathleen Adams
#9. Great ideas are fish in a stream. Your pen/pencil is a spear. If you don't spear them, they'll swim on by. Be ready.
James Scott
#10. Becoming a writer does not mean words will suddenly flow with perfection from your pen. It takes hard work, rejection, and the willingness to lay everything inside you out for the world to see.
Jason E. Hodges
#11. No way. I'm not going in there. I draw the line at grave-robbing, Barrons.
It's not your pen.
Karen Marie Moning
#12. Into love and out again, Thus I went and thus I go. Spare your voice, and hold your pen: Well and bitterly I know All the songs were ever sung, All the words were ever said; Could it be, when I was young, Someone dropped me on my head?
Dorothy Parker
#13. Go ahead and eat your bread, a time will come when it shall get to you breath. Go ahead and leave your pen, exams will come when you shall remember the pen!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#14. You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many books in one. Read him well, and he will help you much; for the study of character in this book will help you to read it in the world, and paint it with your pen.
Louisa May Alcott
#15. The way to elegancy of style is to employ your pen upon every errand; and the more trivial and dry it is, the more brains must be allowed for sauce.
Frances Osborne
#16. Grab your pen! Grab your sword! Eviscerate small minds with pinpoint force of mental might. Victory is in horizon's sight!
A.H. Scott
#18. No war. Fight with your pen. Give your battle-cry in ink, and mark your dreams down on a page
Susan Fletcher
#19. In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.
Sydney Smith
#20. Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak too soon For the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin' who That it's namin' For the loser now Will be later to win For the times they are a-changin'.
Bob Dylan
#21. 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
Nnennaya Amuchie
#22. Let your imagination cast a spell on your pen, and be amazed at how it moves, and exposes your freedom.
C.C. Wyatt
#23. There are no mistakes or accidents. The present is malleable. Influence the odds. Free will is your pen, write your life.
Pharrell Williams
#24. The ink in your pen never reshapes your thoughts, you must replace the ink before the ink can be inked properly.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#25. your pen sticks upright by the nib in the carpet. If there were a cat to swing or a wife to murder now would be the time. So
Virginia Woolf
#26. Life is a poem
just waiting to be written,
lift your pen and speak.
Susie Clevenger
#27. You must make time for that which matters, for that which defines you: your passion, your progress, your pen. Take it up, and write your own story.
V.E Schwab
#28. I do not know if you bridle your pen, but when my pencil moves, it is necesary to let it go, or - crash! ... nothing more.
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
#29. The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.
Stephen King
#30. Tickle my heart with your pen. Write me for all to read. Bind our love inside a book. Make me your poetry.
N'Zuri Za Austin
#32. 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
#33. As long as your pen is moving, you are exploring. As soon as it stops, you are thinking. Danger zone!
Ellen Sandler
#34. If God is going to write your loves story, He's going to first need your pen.
Eric Ludy
#35. 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
#36. So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one story-writer: a thief.
John Fante
#37. One exercise I always do when I'm getting to know a character is ask her to tell me her secrets. Sit down with a pen and paper, and start with, 'I never told anybody ... ' and go from there, writing in the voice of your character.
Jennifer McMahon
#38. Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it.
E.B. White
#39. When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.
Anthony Kiedis
#40. In the family register of glory the small and the great are written with the same pen. You are as dear to your Father's heart as the greatest in the family.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#41. Don't go crazy with art supplies at first. Just get a sketchbook and a pen that'll fit in your bag and keep them with you for when a moment opens up.
Danny Gregory
#42. Several times during the last three years I have taken up my pen to write to you, but always I feared lest your affectionate regard for me should tempt you to some indiscretion which would betray my secret.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#43. When you wake up, instead of checking emails on your phone, or counting your retweets, pick up a pen and scratch a few sentences into a notebook.
Kevin Barry
#44. Your eyelashes will write on my heart
the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.
Rumi
#45. Your eyes make me pick up my pen and write.
Avijeet Das
#46. I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that is common or that may be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such portcullis in your memory.
Benjamin Franklin
#47. Be mindful of your thoughts and words for they are the pen writing that which will manifest.
Sanjo Jendayi
#48. Now, please, if I could direct your attention to the tip of this pen. Notice that it does not look like a normal pen. It is in fact a tooth of the Devil! And it will be injecting into your skin, not ink, but the blood of a demon!
William Pauley III
#49. I wish I could put a pen in your hand and gently remind you how the world has given you poetry and now you must give it back.
Lang Leav
#50. Call anguish
anguish, and despair
despair; write both down in strong characters with a resolute pen: you will the better pay your debt to Doom.
Charlotte Bronte
#51. The pen is very quick for getting stuff from your brain to the page. I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page.
Graham Swift
#52. You found a pen?" "No, but I have a can of Cheez Whiz. I'll write your number on the counter with it, then find a pen and copy it.
Linda Howard
#53. A pen is never worthless. In the right hand, it holds a whole world and all the treasures you could ever want. Now write your story. All of it.
Ian Baucom
#54. Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way
Jacques Barzun
#55. Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
Sinclair Lewis
#56. Handing me a pen is like handy a madman a knife ... at the end of it you know you'll end up with a lot of broken bones, blood, and bodies - but it'll be one hell of a story to tell your friends.
D.E.M. Emrys
#57. If this were a musical, this would signal the start of a dance number. Angry girls sexy danse in unison around the bull pen. Men stride up and grab a partner to a choreographed tango."
Nolan held his hand out.
"Give me your man card. You have never sounded more like a girl than right now.
Erin McCarthy
#58. Life is the greatest chance that has been given to all of us. So how do you choose to live your life? You've got a pen. Write it down.
Kcat Yarza
#59. There lived a poet in the lands of gold,
Wrote along poems unaffected by warmth or cold,
His words spoke truth and pen's stroke was bold,
His only motive: lives to mould
Adhish Mazumder
#60. You ever had a hickey? I want to give you a hickey."
"Karl, we're not fourteen!"
"Don't bloody care. I was in love with you when I was fourteen
your neck owes me a hickey."
(Karl & Elena)
Dianna Hardy
#61. Don't use pencil, for writing on your lover's heart it might erase. Always use ball point pen.
Biranchi Narayan
#62. When writing the story of your life, don't let anyone else hold the pen.
Annisa Widi Astuty
#63. I pick up a pen and start to unscrew the whole thing, pull out the skinny little tube of blue ink. It would be so cool to have one of these built inside you, like a squid; you could point your finger and leave your mark on anything you wanted.
Jodi Picoult
#64. Some want to be writers when life permits it. There is no part-time in being a writer. It's an all-in way of living your life through words and feelings scratched out with a pen.
Jason E. Hodges
#65. Don't let anyone tell your story. Pick up a pen and write your own.
Majid Kazmi
#66. I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen.
Kingsley Amis
#67. How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous.
Haruki Murakami
#68. I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative.
Glen Hansard
#69. The wordlessness of depression is a galling experience. You can't phone your friends, writing an e-mail is beyond you, you can't put pen to paper. The disease is a crash course in meaninglessness, lack of structure, the collapse of form.
Gwyneth Lewis
#70. If you do not lend your car, your fountain pen or your wife to anyone, that is because these objects, according to the logic of jealously, are narcissistic equivalents of the ego: to lose them, or for them to be damaged, means castration.
Jean Baudrillard
#71. Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung, and the song written.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#72. Your sensitivity, your tenderness, your eyes make me pick up my pen and write, Mrignayni!
Avijeet Das
#74. Always read with a pen in your hands, not beside you on the table, but actually in your hand, ready, armed ... Put a question mark by everything you find suspect. Underline anything you really appreciate. Feel free to write 'splendid,' but also, 'I don't believe a word of it.' And even 'bullshit.'
Tim Parks
#75. Let your heart dance with pen and paper
Now fill the paper with dancing letters.
Debasish Mridha
#76. They smell your breath
Lest you have said: I love you,
They smell your heart:
These are strange times, my dear.
From the poem Strange Times, My Dear, in the PEN Anthology of Contemporary Literature
Ahmad Shamlu
#77. 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.
Gloria E. Anzaldua
#78. Some say that "the pen is mightier than the sword." I say "the keyboard is your machine gun.
Sean Donovan
#80. When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene of a crime.
Don Roff
#81. My pen and paper causes a chain reaction, to get your brain relaxing.
Eminem
#82. Des said reluctantly at last, Pray to your god. He's the only other one in here besides us. Pen
Lois McMaster Bujold
#83. The only way you'll have a pen of potential Romeos from your past to choose from is to actually have a past.
Patti Stanger
#84. I never talk back. I listen and always remember your every word, so come pen or mouse, never forget that I will treasure your thoughts forever. Yours truly, Paper.
L.M. Fields
#85. If you could hear the angels pen your deeds... what would you be doing with your life?
Aisha Mirza
#86. Most times, your blessings are also your curses. And for me, I have this ability to express myself so clearly with pen and paper, but when it comes to expressing myself verbally, I put up a big wall.
Alicia Keys
#87. It was a long time before I realized that you don't have to start right, you just have to start. Put pen to paper, allow yourself the freedom to write badly, to get it wrong, stop looking over your own shoulder.
Abigail Thomas
#88. Adieu, valour: rust, rapier: be still, drum, for your manager is in love: yea, he loveth. Assist me, some extemporal god of rhyme, for I am sure I shall turn sonnet. Devise, wit: write, pen, for I am for whole volumes in folio.
William Shakespeare
#89. Never trust someone else to write your life story. Take the pen, and write it yourself.
Ellen J. Barrier
#90. You need me," Pen explained. "I'm your lookout. If I see the coppers coming, I'll make a sound like an owl.
Frances Hardinge
#91. I always tell people that if you gave me a pen and a piece of paper when I was a teenager and said, "Write out how you'd like your career to go," I would have probably short changed myself compared to what it's been for real. I'm just extremely excited about what I've accomplished.
Ice Cube
#92. Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear as he said, Your heart knows what your head don't. Or won't.
Mary Karr
#93. The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.
George Henry Lewes
#95. If you get stuck, draw with a different pen. Change your tools; it may free your thinking.
Paul Arden
#96. I lied. I need your help." "Who are we killing?" "Do you have a pen?
Ilona Andrews
#97. Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when I'm alone. But when one is elevated into the stature of an author, you have to think about your books in terms of their business angle.
Ashwin Sanghi
#98. Don't stop writing until someone pries the pen from your cold, dead hands.
James John Tritten
#99. You've got to pick your battles, Pen, but then fight to the death for the ones that matter.
Tiffany Schmidt
#100. Have you pen and ink, Master Doctor?"
"A scholar is never without them, your majesty," answered Doctor Cornelius.
C.S. Lewis
