Pens Quotes

616 Pens quotes by 492 unique authors

I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen.… — Colm Toibin
The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your head, there's nothing… — Colm Toibin
I am a galley slave to pen and ink. — Honore de Balzac
Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words." From the moment… — Orhan Pamuk
Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword. — David Mitchell
You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I become one of those people who walks alone in the dark at night while others sleep or watch Mary Tyler Moore reruns or pull… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which… — Virginia Woolf
The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the poor men from pen to pen, crowding around to… — Mercedes Lackey
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons. — Douglas MacArthur
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have… — Nelson Mandela
Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You do not know… — Neil Gaiman
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from… — Napoleon Bonaparte
You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of… — Gertrude Stein
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms… — William Shakespeare
She wrote poetry constantly; that was her "work". She was a slow bleeder and she slaved over it for long, exhausting hours, and many a… — Millard Kaufman
Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them. — Vladimir Nabokov
The gate is perfectly simple," Temeraire said. "There is only a bar across the fence, which one can lift very easily, and then it swings… — Naomi Novik
In two weeks, despite these notes, I shall no longer believe in what I am experiencing now. One must leave behind a trace of this… — Jean Cocteau
But our wounds are part of who we are...and there is nothing left to chance....And pain's the pen that writes the songs....That call us forth… — Michael Card
The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been… — Paul Auster
I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation-with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated as holding pens—miniature… — Barack Obama
I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe. — Jacques Derrida
I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing… — Daniil Kharms

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