Pen Quotes
753 Pen quotes by 581 unique authors
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She was witchy, yes, and in charge of a cauldron roiling with ideas and stories, but she always gave the impression that the stories, the…
— Neil Gaiman
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How can I describe how much I love you? Is it even possible to describe a love like that? I don’t know, but as I…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Both light and shadow are the dance of Love. Love has no cause, it is the astrolabe of God's secrets. Lover and loving are inseparable…
— Unknown Author
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The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We…
— Natalie Goldberg
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God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins Shall forth at vast of night that they…
— William Shakespeare
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Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had not…
— Pat Conroy
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Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem "Digging
— Seamus Heaney
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Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.
— Unknown Author
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How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?
— Virginia Woolf
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The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her…
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Dumb. He should have gotten the pen. Jewelry was so public... and personal, which was why he'd bought it. He couldn't buy Eleanor a pen.…
— Rainbow Rowell
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Perhaps it is just as well to be rash and foolish for a while. If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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It's an illusion I've noticed before-- words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It only lasts while the…
— Elizabeth Wein
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How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your…
— Haruki Murakami
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One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.
— Malala Yousafzai
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Doubtful, but it did work... "Annabeth?" Percy said again. "You're planning something. You've got that I'm-planning-something look." "I don't have an I'm-planning-something look." "Yeah, you…
— Rick Riordan
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It happened in New York, April 10th, nineteen years ago. Even my hand balks at the date. I had to push to write it down,…
— Donna Tartt
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Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.
— Daniel Handler
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Let us pick up our books and our pens,” I said. “They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one…
— Malala Yousafzai
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It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain..
— Dale Dauten
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and then…
— Tracy Chevalier
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Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But…
— Gary Wolf
Who Wrote These Pen Quotes
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