Pen Quotes

753 quotes by 600 authors

Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what… — Unknown Author
A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch, — Michael Ondaatje
I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on… — Graham Swift
If I make the seven oceans ink, if I make the trees my pen, if I make the earth my paper, the glory of God… — Kabir
Some men rob you with a six-gun -- others rob you with a fountain pen. — Woody Guthrie
You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real… — Bill Gates
Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to… — Robert A. Heinlein
I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world. So far as I know… — Radclyffe Hall
If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth. — Dmitri Shostakovich
My pen is an artery, my heart is a fountain — Jay Electronica
Raptors are smart. Very smart. Believe me, all the problems we have so far are nothing compared with what we'd have if the raptors ever… — Robert Muldoon
You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is written in the Word of God as with an iron pen, and there is… — Charles Spurgeon
Steve Forman strafes the south Florida scene with Boca Knights, an outrageously funny mystery novel with a raft of offbeat characters and prose that moves… — Douglas Preston
My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I'd sketch shoes… — Alexander Wang
No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery. — Harriet Ann Jacobs
Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I am often asked why I use a variety of pen names. The answer is that this way readers always know which of my three… — Jayne Ann Krentz
To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things, — Anne Bradstreet
I want to trace my father, could you suggest a good marker pen? — Frankie Boyle

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