Pen Quotes

753 quotes by 581 authors

I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday, — Nelson DeMille
I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter. — Mary Lou Retton
As I lay down my pen, let me record my immovable conviction that His is the noblest service in which any human being can spend… — John Gibson Paton
I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince oneâ€™s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that,… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
I think I write honestly about what goes on in a guyâ€™s mind, and girls are interested in that. As a sex, weâ€™re not the… — Gary Lightbody
So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem the historian is… — Philip Sidney
Thoughtcrime is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death. I have committed even before setting pen to paper the essential crime that contains… — Winston Smith
We call people who work with mud and earth, and sand and stone, unskilled labor in India. I cannot in this lifetime wield the implements… — Aruna Roy
Do not pick up the pen unless you understand how heavy it is, and how long you may carry it for. — Jason Ellis
As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker's feet rise and fall between paces, and as the deer continues to run… — Robert Macfarlane
Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk. — Christopher Smart
I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation. — Tara Bray Smith
Being attached to America these days is like being in a pen with a wounded bull. — Rick Mercer
Go into the largest livestock operation, search out the darkest and tiniest stall or pen, single out the filthiest, most forlorn little lamb or pig… — Matthew Scully
Putting pen to paper lights more fire than matches ever will — Malcolm Forbes
The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday… — Anne Tyler
Everyone in their life has his own particular way of expressing life's purpose - the lawyer his eloquence, the painter his palette, and the man… — Gino Bartali
The publisher Jeff Johnson, who has offered not a word of explanation to me, has privately told people that he hated every word that I… — Robert Scheer
And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear. — William Blake
I've always known that the best part of writing occurs before you've picked up a pen. When a story exists only in your mind, its… — Carolyn Parkhurst

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