Pen Quotes
753 quotes by 581 authors
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Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include…
— David McCullough
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I can always live by my pen.
— Jane Austen
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
— Abigail Adams
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If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
— Victor Hugo
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She had an unequalled gift, usually pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into opportunities.
— Henry James
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If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
— Martin Luther
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Isabella with her whip and boots and knives would chop anyone who tried to pen her up in a tower into pieces, build a bridge…
— Cassandra Clare
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I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all…
— Jane Austen
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I know what I should love to do - to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury…
— Lew Wallace
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I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.
— Jonathan Carroll
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And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I…
— Graham Greene
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There would be little reason to lie down at night without the possibility of seeing things bigger and more amazing than the average day might…
— Obert Skye
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While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not…
— Margaret Atwood
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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those old aqueducts: there’s…
— Gustave Flaubert
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The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There…
— Machado de Assis
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And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.
— Marcus Garvey
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I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
— Alexandre Dumas
Who Wrote These Pen Quotes
581 authors contributed a total of 753 Pen Quotes, led by these top contributors: