Pens Quotes
616 quotes by 503 authors
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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
— Jane Austen
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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has…
— Jane Austen
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Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the…
— Russell Baker
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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
— Max Beerbohm
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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
— Abdallah II
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In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book.…
— Pearl S. Buck
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When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my…
— Gisele Bundchen
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Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and…
— Harlan Coben
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Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself…
— Maya Angelou
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It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.
— Adam Ant
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Bury me smilin' with G's in my pocket, Have a party at my funeral let every rapper rock it Let the hoes that I used…
— Tupac Shakur
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I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene. Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however…
— Albert Einstein
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Life in the pen ain't for me 'cos I'd rather die.
— Tupac Shakur
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Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame;…
— William Blake
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Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!
— Saadi
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a…
— Alexander Pope
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It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones or women, swords…
— Gelett Burgess
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I remember sitting down with the Rockets and saying, 'Yeah. I'm going to retire.' They said, 'Well, we'll give you $9 million.' And I said,…
— Charles Barkley
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A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the…
— Barbara Holland
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The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.
— George Henry Lewes
Who Wrote These Pens Quotes
503 authors contributed a total of 616 Pens Quotes, led by these top contributors: