Pen Quotes

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Don't write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldn't be changed. — Richard Hugo
Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a… — Sinclair Lewis
I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be… — Lancelot Hogben
Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun, And some with a fountain… — Woody Guthrie
My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard. — Judah Halevi
I believe in the rest of the story. I believe there's still ink in the pen.... and someday all that's hazy through a clouded glass… — Nichole Nordeman
I swear I have at least one good song idea a day. But if I don't get pen to paper in ten seconds, it's gone… — Cary Ann Hearst
I guess when we're happy, it's easier to go with the flow, and when that happiness or joy is interrupted, that's when we get contemplative… — Jeremy Fisher
The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing. — William Wordsworth
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
Let me tell you what I look like: pale face, long hair, and a tiny start of a paunch. In addition, an awkward gait, and… — Albert Einstein
The Holy Spirit ain't got a pen. — Russell Brand
I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen… — Shelby Foote
I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink… — Joseph Fiennes
Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. Let it cool ever so slightly, and you are left,… — Maurice Chevalier
Songwriters canâ€™t explain. You get an idea and you donâ€™t know where itâ€™s come from. And if youâ€™re lucky, you have a pencil or pen… — Pete Seeger
So, I sit at the hotel at night and I think of something that's funny. Or, If the pen is too far away, I have… — Mitch Hedberg
I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom. — Clifton Webb
Designers take care of everything around us. Everything that is around us, this table, this chair, this lamp, this pen has been designed. All of… — Massimo Vignelli

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