Pen Quotes
753 Pen quotes by 581 unique authors
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Most times, your blessings are also your curses. And for me, I have this ability to express myself so clearly with pen and paper, but…
— Alicia Keys
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If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.
— Dean Koontz
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Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to…
— Shia LaBeouf
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I usually dream of melodies. When I wake up I have them in my head. I usually come up with things in the middle of…
— Leona Lewis
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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not…
— Samuel Lover
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You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual…
— John Lydon
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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to…
— Maimonides
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When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you…
— Hilary Mantel
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Under Obama, our federal tax dollars can now be used to fund abortion all over the world. With the stroke of a pen, abortion essentially…
— Rick Perry
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
— Petrarch
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When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the…
— Jackson Pollock
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The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
— Terry Pratchett
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I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.
— Terry Pratchett
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I always have a Sharpie, because usually when someone asks me for an autograph, they don't have a pen. I carry one in my purse,…
— Maria Sharapova
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You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
— Paul Simon
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Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening…
— Anna Deavere Smith
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I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.
— Robert Smith
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In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give…
— Sydney Smith
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I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM…
— Zadie Smith
Who Wrote These Pen Quotes
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