Pens Quotes

616 Pens quotes by 492 unique authors

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol. — Alexandre Dumas
you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never… — Cornelia Funke
The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen. — Aravind Adiga
The change which the writing wrought in me (and of which I did not write) was only a beginning; only to prepare me for the… — C.S. Lewis
End production today. Wrap party as usual a little sad. Slow danced with Scarlett. Broke her toe. Not my fault. When she dipped me back,… — Woody Allen
A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure) — Natsuki Takaya
I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place — Gore Vidal
I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet, teaching me something… — Muriel Barbery
I also felt guilty about the three pens I'd stolen, but only for a second. And since there was no convenient way to give them… — Patrick Rothfuss
Chronicler picked up his pen, but before he could dip it, Kvothe held up a hand. "Let me say one thing before I start. I've… — Patrick Rothfuss
The pencil is mightier than the pen. — Robert M. Pirsig
Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so… — Chuck Palahniuk
Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence. — Matthew Tobin Anderson
I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters whose supernatural power… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The fairy poet takes a sheet Of moonbeam, silver white; His ink is dew from daisies sweet, His pen a point of light. — Joyce Kilmer
Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and hours of it,… — Laurence Sterne
A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and… — Aphra Behn
All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92) — Norma Fox Mazer
Me? I'm just a literary girl gone wrong. Slow with the tongue. Quick with the pen. Undeniably cute. But, on the whole, ill-equipped for the… — Koren Zailckas
Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung,… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear… — Mary Karr
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank… — Gaston Bachelard
The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This… — Hilary Mantel
I was asking if unwinding kills you, or if it leaves you alive somehow. C'mon—it's not like we haven't thought about it." (...) What do… — Neal Shusterman

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