Pens Quotes · Page 12

Throwaway pens are no good - I never liked them. I've tried them all.

— Robert Crumb

Who else had one of those pens with a five colors, and tried to push all the buttons at once?

— Nishant Grover

When people ask me for an autograph I usually ask for a pen and then stab them with it.

— Thom Yorke

The gun is mightier than the pen, was our true opinion, and the RPG is mightier still.

— Lydia Millet

Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.

— Malala Yousafzai

When I have fears that I may ceace to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teaming brain".

— John Keats

This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.

— Peter Greenaway

I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.

— Anonymous

Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going…

— Francoise Sagan

Leopards break into the temple and drink all the sacrificial vessels dry; it keeps happening; in the end, it can be calculated…

— Franz Kafka

I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.

— Thomas Carlyle

[When asked if the voice is an instrument:] Yes, of course. Some are violins, some are fountain pens and some are stethoscopes.…

— Marilyn vos Savant

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a…

— Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which…

— Gaston Bachelard

I am an atheist. I do not believe in prayers, I believe in work. And my work is that of an author.…

— Taslima Nasrin

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of…

— Graham Greene

Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in…

— Harlan Coben

I think all writing is political. All writing shows a preoccupation with something, whatever that thing might be, and by putting pen…

— Nick Laird

I always write on unlined typing paper and write the first draft in longhand, using cheap Bic pens. I try to write…

— Tess Gerritsen

We danced our youth in a dreamed of city, Venice, paradise, proud and pretty, We lived for love and lust and beauty,…

— Veronica Franco

A Favorite of 863 Users When the americans went to space they quickly found out that ball point pens wouldn't work in…

— Anonymous

You may think you don't have talents, but that is a false assumption, for we all have talents and gifts, every one…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Two hundred Romans, and no one’s got a pen? Never mind!" He slung his M16 onto his back and pulled out a…

— Rick Riordan

I have suffered, like other writers, from indolence, irresolution, distaste to my work, absence of 'inspiration,' and all that: but I have…

— Harriet Martineau

My Lord, I have nothing to do in this World, but to seek and serve thee; I have nothing to do with…

— Richard Baxter

In those days, we imagined ourselves as being kept in some kind of holding pen, waiting to be released into our lives.…

— Julian Barnes

The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes. Then there is…

— Gore Vidal

If I like hardcore straight-edge punk music, gentle psychedelic folk music, gangster rap, indie-rock with a lot of guitar pedals, and I…

— Jeffrey Lewis

I was extremely frustrated, almost at the point of giving up on coming up with a name for the project (because I'm…

— St. Lucia

Where some may see flat, static narratives, I see a spectrum of tonal gradations and realities. What I am creating is literally…

— Toyin Odutola

My self . . . is a dramatic ensemble. Here a prophetic ancestor makes his appearance. Here a brutal hero shouts. Here…

— Paul Klee

The thing that should most concern us is a shift in American foreign policy. We have had a bipartisan belief in American…

— David Brooks

Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again.

— Johnny Depp

I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.

— Colm Toibin

The pen isn’t really the weapon - the work ethic is the weapon.

— Lemon Andersen

When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.

— Karl Kraus

I come from a stupid family. My father worked in a bank. They caught him stealing pens.

— Rodney Dangerfield

I keep a picture of my beloved children close by. Also, water and plenty of pads and pens.

— Alain de Botton

They favour learning whose actions are worthy of a learned pen.

— George Herbert

Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.

— Evelyn Waugh