Pens Quotes · Page 10

What happens to us all, I think, when we pick up a pen, is that we just become snobs.

— Glen Hansard

The pen is in your hands, the rest is still unwritten.

— Natasha Bedingfield

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

— John Dryden

I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday,

— Nelson DeMille

The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.

— Vladimir Nabokov

A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

— Rick Bragg

The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something…

— Billy Collins

The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.

— Malala Yousafzai

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen…

— Anonymous

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to…

— Josephine Baker

I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.

— George Washington

I am often asked why I use a variety of pen names. The answer is that this way readers always know which…

— Jayne Ann Krentz

A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen…

— William Butler Yeats

I was walking every morning, and I'd take my iPod and paper and pen. As I walked, I wrote a poem, and then…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

The Lazysphere - a working definition - is a group of bloggers who I won't name by name, but you can spot…

— Steve Rubel

When we digital artists talk about painting on the computer, that is exactly what we do. The paints we use are pixels,…

— Donald Lambert

Pens?" Chase echoed. Bridget rolled her eyes. "Pens are by far more stimulating than most people." "I'm kind of wondering what you're…

— J. Lynn

For the author there is nothing but his pen, till that and life are worn to the stump: and then, with good…

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

I was sitting here without a shirt on, absentmindedly scratching my back with a pen for about five minutes and I just…

— Jade Puget

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the…

— Jackson Pollock

Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a…

— Neil Gaiman

The worst part about loving someone, Merripen, is that there will always be things you can't protect her from. Things beyond your…

— Lisa Kleypas

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the…

— Josiah Stamp

Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that…

— Pat Conroy

I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and…

— Shirley Jackson

I don't have a favorite cooking tool. In the kitchen, I always have my pencil and notebook in my hand. I cook…

— Ferran Adria

It seems like I always wrote, I just didn't think of it as a career choice. I just liked to tell stories…

— Charles de Lint

As I lay down my pen, let me record my immovable conviction that His is the noblest service in which any human…

— John Gibson Paton

Eternity.—Thy name Or glad, or fearful, we pronounce, as thoughts Wandering in darkness shape thee. Thou strange being, Which art and must…

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army.

— Orson Welles

I want to trace my father, could you suggest a good marker pen?

— Frankie Boyle

So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.

— Upamanyu Chatterjee

Let us keep our mouths shut and our pens dry until we know the facts.

— Anton Julius Carlson

A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure)

— Natsuki Takaya

What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!

— Gustave Flaubert

I usually make to-do lists with timelines, and pen and paper does the trick for me.

— Luis von Ahn

The best way to fight terrorism is not through guns. It's through pens, books, teachers and schools.

— Malala Yousafzai