Pen Quotes

753 Pen quotes by 581 unique authors

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of… — John Philip Sousa
But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it. — Laurence Sterne
To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper. — Quentin Tarantino
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write. — William Makepeace Thackeray
Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the… — Marlo Thomas
To hold a pen is to be at war. — Voltaire
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. — John Greenleaf Whittier
Give us that grand word 'woman' once again, and let's have done with 'lady'; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm,… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and… — George Edward Woodberry
When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas flowed out. My… — Regina Brett
Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent. — Michelangelo
I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second. — Colm Toibin
I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen.… — Colm Toibin
I am a galley slave to pen and ink. — Honore de Balzac
Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words." From the moment… — Orhan Pamuk
Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword. — David Mitchell
You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which… — Virginia Woolf
The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the poor men from pen to pen, crowding around to… — Mercedes Lackey
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons. — Douglas MacArthur

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