Pen Quotes
753 Pen quotes by 581 unique authors
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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank…
— Gaston Bachelard
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The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This…
— Hilary Mantel
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My pen shall heal, not hurt.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started…
— Bill Moyers
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We danced our youth in a dreamed of city, Venice, paradise, proud and pretty, We lived for love and lust and beauty, Pleasure then our…
— Veronica Franco
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His eyes, I’d long since discovered, could be as eloquent and expressive as his pen. The messages they sent me now hardly seemed decent for…
— Richelle Mead
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They done Wrong Like ink from a busted pen Thrown away 'cause of someone else Used up But he come back Dressed in night Fine…
— P. C. Cast
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She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girls’ hand. She had nothing to do with that hand. Let that…
— Cynthia Voigt
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The worst part about loving someone, Merripen, is that there will alÂways be things you can't protect her from. Things beÂyond your control. You finally…
— Lisa Kleypas
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You wrote this right?†he said. “It tells how to defeat Set.†Thoth unfolded the papyrus pages. “Oh, dear. I hate reading my old work.…
— Rick Riordan
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There was a small wooden gazebo built out over the water; Isabelle was sitting in it, staring out across the lake. She looked like a…
— Cassandra Clare
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LeopÂards break inÂto the temÂple and drink all the sacÂriÂfiÂcial vesÂsels dry; it keeps hapÂpenÂing; in the end, it can be calÂcuÂlatÂed in adÂvance and…
— Franz Kafka
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I handed the test in five minutes before the end of the day. Mrs. Baker took it calmly, then reached into her bottom drawer for…
— Gary D. Schmidt
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I take up my own pen again - the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To myself - today - I…
— Henry James
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Found one of my old journals. from right around the time we were heading out on tour with NFG in the UK early 2008. i…
— Hayley Williams
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She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks.…
— David Nicholls
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I don’t keep a travel diary. I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip…
— Alex Garland
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One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen,…
— Virginia Woolf
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Your problem, it is not here' - he pointed the pen at Max-Ernest's throat - 'it is here' - he pointed the pen at Max-Ernest's…
— Pseudonymous Bosch
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The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.
— Stephen King
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