My Pen Quotes
80 quotes by 71 authors
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In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book.…
— Pearl S. Buck
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If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place on my knee…
— Pierre Loti
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My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard.
— Judah Halevi
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I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but of the whole…
— Winston Churchill
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I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into…
— Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with…
— Petrarch
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I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein in the body…
— Ketch Secor
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If I make the seven oceans ink, if I make the trees my pen, if I make the earth my paper, the glory of God…
— Kabir
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I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world. So far as I know…
— Radclyffe Hall
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My pen is an artery, my heart is a fountain
— Jay Electronica
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As I lay down my pen, let me record my immovable conviction that His is the noblest service in which any human being can spend…
— John Gibson Paton
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I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that,…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk.
— Christopher Smart
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The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday…
— Anne Tyler
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The publisher Jeff Johnson, who has offered not a word of explanation to me, has privately told people that he hated every word that I…
— Robert Scheer
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With feelings of gratitude for all that is good in this world, I put down my pen. Well, I'll be leaving now.
— Satoshi Kon
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When I take up my pen to write, I feel the strength of standing up and refusing to be silent. In an oppressive situation, silence…
— Chenjerai Hove
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When I put my pen to a blank sheet, black isn’t added but rather the white sheet is deprived of light. [] Thus I also…
— Adrian Frutiger
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I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.
— Spalding Gray
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But what a little I can get down into my pen of what is so vivid to my eyes, and not only to my eyes;…
— Virginia Woolf
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