Pen Quotes

753 Pen quotes by 581 unique authors

People crave encouragement, and sometimes the greatest encouragement is the writing of words that endure. Perhaps you can pen a note of affirmation and approval… — David Jeremiah
To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen… — Winston Churchill
If he [the Artist] were to take up the pen it would be...to better express his individuality and explain it to others; or else to… — Witold Gombrowicz
A sudden cloud formation of birds was swallowed up by the moon, and he was just as suddenly penned in by four walls-the demons' pen. — Mo Yan
Read him slowly, dear girl, you must read Kipling slowly. Watch carefully where the commas fall so you can discover the natural pauses. He is… — Michael Ondaatje
Great ideas are fish in a stream. Your pen/pencil is a spear. If you don't spear them, they'll swim on by. Be ready. — James Scott
Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can paint… — Jane Austen
But what a little I can get down into my pen of what is so vivid to my eyes, and not only to my eyes;… — Virginia Woolf
I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a fountain pen, a… — Tony Kushner
I'm not asking a poem to carry a lot of rocks in its pockets. Just being an ordinary observer and liver and feeler and letting… — Sharon Olds
I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right… — Helmut Newton
Nas is one of the Greatest Ever. Never has and never will need a ghostwriter. That man’s pen and legacy is without question. — Jay Electronica
When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist… — Buffy Sainte-Marie
Man, fountains pen are a pain to use, drawing backgrounds is a also a pain... Drawing manga really is a pain. In short living is… — Hideaki Sorachi
A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You take the pen, and the lines dance. You take the flute and the notes shimmer. You take the brush, and the colors sing. So… — Dag Hammarskjold
Always read with a pen in your hands, not beside you on the table, but actually in your hand, ready, armed ... Put a question… — Tim Parks
Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The… — Marya Mannes
The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people. — George D. Prentice
I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen. — Thomas Carlyle
Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question… — Thomas Carlyle
The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the mind and render… — Washington Irving
The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter… — Robert Breault
It is my mission to help in the breaking down of classes, and to make all men feel as if they were brethren of the… — Lydia M. Child
As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in… — Georg C. Lichtenberg

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