Pen Quotes

753 Pen quotes by 581 unique authors

I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know those huge paintings?-I'm… — Michael Jackson
To idealize: all writing is a campaign against cliché. Not just clichés of the pen but clichés of the mind and clichés of the heart. — Martin Amis
It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort… — Elizabeth Aston
No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had — Samuel Johnson
I have everything I need. A square of sky, a piece of stone, a page, a pen, and memory raining down on me in sleeves. — Harriet Doerr
Men=earthbound creatures, living in communities, endowed with common sense, sensus communis, a community sense; not autonomous, needing each other’s company even for thinking (“freedom of the… — Hannah
There are no mistakes or accidents. The present is malleable. Influence the odds. Free will is your pen, write your life. — Pharrell Williams
You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with… — Josephine Baker
Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration. — Mark Twain
'I haven't used the veto pen very often since I've been in office,' Obama told NPR. 'Now, I suspect there are going to be some… — Byron York
I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. — John Millington Synge
The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her… — Jane Austen
Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his… — Samuel Johnson
We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our strength, and exhaust… — Seneca the Younger
This pen is my only outlet, my only voice, because I have no one else to speak to, no mind but my own to drown… — Tahereh Mafi
It is (to describe it figuratively) as if an author were to make a slip of the pen, and as if this clerical error became… — Soren Kierkegaard
WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the… — Edmond Jabes
Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen. — Ambrose Bierce
There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way out. — H. L. Mencken
Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me… — Mark Twain
Set an intention to heal any unexpressed anger that may be present in your life. Go to a quiet place with pen and paper. Take… — Iyanla Vanzant
No one has invented a condom for the pen yet — Khushwant Singh
I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power?… — Walid Jumblatt
A pen connects you to the paper. It definitely matters. — Elmore Leonard
Finally, if you want to write, you have to just shut up, pick up a pen, and do it. I'm sorry there are no true… — Natalie Goldberg

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