Pen Quotes

753 quotes by 581 authors

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. — John Millington Synge
The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her… — Jane Austen
Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his… — Samuel Johnson
We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our strength, and exhaust… — Seneca the Younger
This pen is my only outlet, my only voice, because I have no one else to speak to, no mind but my own to drown… — Tahereh Mafi
It is (to describe it figuratively) as if an author were to make a slip of the pen, and as if this clerical error became… — Soren Kierkegaard
WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the… — Edmond Jabes
Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen. — Ambrose Bierce
There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way out. — H. L. Mencken
Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me… — Mark Twain
Set an intention to heal any unexpressed anger that may be present in your life. Go to a quiet place with pen and paper. Take… — Iyanla Vanzant
No one has invented a condom for the pen yet — Khushwant Singh
I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power?… — Walid Jumblatt
A pen connects you to the paper. It definitely matters. — Elmore Leonard
Finally, if you want to write, you have to just shut up, pick up a pen, and do it. I'm sorry there are no true… — Natalie Goldberg
Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages. — Voltaire
Now that I know that each star has its path, each bird is finally feathered and grown in the unbroken shell, each tree in the… — Judith Wright
Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend. — William Shakespeare
Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

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