Pens Quotes

616 Pens quotes by 492 unique authors

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army. — Orson Welles
A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by… — Virginia Woolf
Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth. — Jasper Fforde
Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm,… — Anne Fadiman
A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and… — Henry David Thoreau
Pen-bereavement is a serious matter. — Anne Fadiman
Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need… — Friedrich Nietzsche
When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include… — David McCullough
I can always live by my pen. — Jane Austen
My bursting heart must find vent at my pen. — Abigail Adams
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away. — Victor Hugo
She had an unequalled gift, usually pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into opportunities. — Henry James
If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write. — Martin Luther
Isabella with her whip and boots and knives would chop anyone who tried to pen her up in a tower into pieces, build a bridge… — Cassandra Clare
I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all… — Jane Austen
I know what I should love to do - to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury… — Lew Wallace
I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up. — Jonathan Carroll
And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I… — Graham Greene
There would be little reason to lie down at night without the possibility of seeing things bigger and more amazing than the average day might… — Obert Skye
While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not… — Margaret Atwood
I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those old aqueducts: there’s… — Gustave Flaubert
The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There… — Machado de Assis
And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper… — Dorothy L. Sayers
The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together. — Marcus Garvey

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