Pen Quotes
753 Pen quotes by 581 unique authors
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The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a…
— Robert Henri
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I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and can’t erase my mistakes.
— Bill Kaulitz
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What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it…
— John Ciardi
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We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We…
— William Butler Yeats
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It looked something like a pen wiper and something like a piece of hearth-rug. A second and keener inspection revealed it as a Pekinese puppy.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
— Irvin S. Cobb
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The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive…
— A J P Taylor
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I'm not formal and I'm impatient. So I think my team would say that when she starts tapping her pen and the leg starts moving…
— Anne M. Mulcahy
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God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.
— Peter Kreeft
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Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.
— Unknown Author
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The pen isn’t really the weapon - the work ethic is the weapon.
— Lemon Andersen
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I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to…
— Aldous Huxley
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The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be…
— John Steinbeck
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The Bible is God's declaratory revelation to man containing the great truths about God, about man, about history, about salvation, and about prophecy that God…
— John F Walvoord
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Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a…
— Nawal El Saadawi
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I don't consider myself to be a painter. I think of myself as someone who has used the medium of painting in an attempt to…
— Kenneth Patchen
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After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no…
— Jack Prelutsky
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I hear better with a pen in my hand.
— Alan Judd
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If someone writes a great story, people praise the author, not the pen. People don't say, 'Oh what an incredible pen...where can I get a…
— Keith Green
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When I take up my pen to write, I feel the strength of standing up and refusing to be silent. In an oppressive situation, silence…
— Unknown Author
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The gift list is thinking upon His goodness – and this, this pleases Him most! And most profits my own soul and I am beginning,…
— Ann Voskamp
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New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to…
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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When I put my pen to a blank sheet, black isn’t added but rather the white sheet is deprived of light. [] Thus I also…
— Adrian Frutiger
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In this manner, I continued with Satan for ten days. His answer and blasphemy were too shocking to pen; till I was worn out with…
— Joanna Southcott
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The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you a constantly growing…
— Stephen King
Who Wrote These Pen Quotes
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