Pen Quotes

753 Pen quotes by 581 unique authors

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have… — Nelson Mandela
Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You do not know… — Neil Gaiman
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from… — Napoleon Bonaparte
You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of… — Gertrude Stein
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms… — William Shakespeare
She wrote poetry constantly; that was her "work". She was a slow bleeder and she slaved over it for long, exhausting hours, and many a… — Millard Kaufman
Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them. — Vladimir Nabokov
The gate is perfectly simple," Temeraire said. "There is only a bar across the fence, which one can lift very easily, and then it swings… — Naomi Novik
In two weeks, despite these notes, I shall no longer believe in what I am experiencing now. One must leave behind a trace of this… — Jean Cocteau
But our wounds are part of who we are...and there is nothing left to chance....And pain's the pen that writes the songs....That call us forth… — Michael Card
The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been… — Paul Auster
I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation-with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe. — Jacques Derrida
I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing… — Daniil Kharms
A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army. — Orson Welles
A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by… — Virginia Woolf
Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth. — Jasper Fforde
Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm,… — Anne Fadiman
A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and… — Henry David Thoreau
Pen-bereavement is a serious matter. — Anne Fadiman

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