Pen Quotes
753 quotes by 600 authors
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With feelings of gratitude for all that is good in this world, I put down my pen. Well, I'll be leaving now.
— Satoshi Kon
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When women are seen with pen in hand, they are met immediately with shrieks commanding a return to that life of pain which their writing…
— Arcangela Tarabotti
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Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand it particularly beautiful…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.
— Honore de Balzac
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The pen is in your hands, the rest is still unwritten.
— Natasha Bedingfield
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The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a…
— Robert Henri
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I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and can’t erase my mistakes.
— Bill Kaulitz
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What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it…
— John Ciardi
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We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We…
— William Butler Yeats
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It looked something like a pen wiper and something like a piece of hearth-rug. A second and keener inspection revealed it as a Pekinese puppy.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
— Irvin S. Cobb
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The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive…
— A J P Taylor
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I'm not formal and I'm impatient. So I think my team would say that when she starts tapping her pen and the leg starts moving…
— Anne M. Mulcahy
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God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.
— Peter Kreeft
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Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.
— Shneur Zalman of Liadi
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The pen isn’t really the weapon - the work ethic is the weapon.
— Lemon Andersen
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I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to…
— Aldous Huxley
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The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be…
— John Steinbeck
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The Bible is God's declaratory revelation to man containing the great truths about God, about man, about history, about salvation, and about prophecy that God…
— John F Walvoord
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Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a…
— Nawal El Saadawi
Who Wrote These Pen Quotes
600 authors contributed a total of 753 Pen Quotes, led by these top contributors: