Pen Quotes

753 quotes by 613 authors

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the power to create… — Josiah Stamp
Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched… — Camille Flammarion
In love matters; keep your pen from paper. — Alfred de Musset
Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that… — Joseph Brodsky
My Lord, I have nothing to do in this World, but to seek and serve thee; I have nothing to do with a Heart and… — Richard Baxter
The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind with the iron… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men. — Richard Watson Gilder
There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and… — Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
The incessant driving of the pen over paper causes intense fatigue of the hand and the whole arm because of the continuous ... strain on… — Bernardino Ramazzini
The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing… — Al-Ghazali
Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the poets pen for the grandest… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written. — Miguel de Cervantes
It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal fortitude… — Frank Yerby
Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They… — Mark Twain
Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work. — Sinclair Lewis
The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the… — Anne Enright
In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced. — Gaston Bachelard
Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do… — Jacques Barzun
Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say. — Francoise Sagan
One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen. — Leo Tolstoy

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