Pen Quotes

753 Pen quotes by 581 unique authors

I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes out that you're… — Glen Hansard
The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background. — Rick Bragg
The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour… — Lincoln Child
I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium. — Mackenzie Crook
So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport. — Upamanyu Chatterjee
Before I could even hold a pen I was singing. — Melanie Fiona
I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think better looking down… — Joshua Ferris
Give me a paper and pen, so I can write about my life of sin. A couple of bottles of gin, in case I don't… — Tupac Shakur
Papa loved Mama, Mama loved men, Mama's in the graveyard, Papa's in the pen. — Garth Brooks
We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, the cowman with trap and poison, the… — Aldo Leopold
Confucius does his crossword with a pen. — Tori Amos
Trust me, I did not set out to establish three pen names and, for the record, I do not recommend it as a career strategy.… — Jayne Ann Krentz
You may think you don't have talents, but that is a false assumption, for we all have talents and gifts, every one of us. The… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
I'm still a soldier, fighting with my pen and paper for peace till the day I cease. — Emmanuel Jal
If you want to draw comics, you really have to love to draw, as you will be spending many hours sitting down with a pencil… — Dave Gibbons
Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from readings suffering everything… — Leigh Newman
Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies… — Ogden Nash
It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used… — Immanuel Velikovsky
The pen is the lever that moves the world. — Thomas De Witt Talmage
The pen has shaken nations. — Martin Farquhar Tupper
Objects of Appreciation: Every time you go to use a utensil or instrument, take pleasure and feel gratitude for the fact that you have such… — Zelig Pliskin
I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk than the fury of a merciless pen. — Thomas Browne
Pen, wax and parchment govern the world. — Benjamin Franklin
Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. — William Shakespeare
The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling; Bringing to light and use, else hid from all,… — Philip James Bailey

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