Pens Quotes · Page 11

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

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

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

“[Hannah:] Here is to Rylie Cates: May your pens never run out of ink, your computer never run out of power, and…

— Jessica Lave

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

— Henry Fielding

Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Vladimir Putin mainly has friends in Europe among the extreme right, such as Marine Le Pen's Front National in France.

— Garry Kasparov

I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples…

— Maira Kalman

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 upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial!…

— Whitley Strieber

My pen.’ Funny, I wrote that without noticing. ‘The torch’, ‘the paper’, but ‘my pen’. That shows what writing means to me,…

— John Marsden

I take it that a monograph of this sort belongs to the ephemera literature of science. The studied care which is warranted…

— Gilbert N. Lewis

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

Write, if you must; not otherwise. Do not write, if you can earn a fair living at teaching or dressmaking, at electricity…

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

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

Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from…

— Leigh Newman

Both light and shadow are the dance of Love. Love has no cause, it is the astrolabe of God's secrets. Lover and…

— Anonymous

The gate is perfectly simple," Temeraire said. "There is only a bar across the fence, which one can lift very easily, and…

— Naomi Novik

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

I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation.

— Tara Bray Smith

What happens to me if this slipper fits?" "I turn you into a handsome frog.

— Judith McNaught