Pen Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Pen

Pen Quotes & Sayings

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You can call anyone you want a traitor as long as you're the one holding the pen. — Nihad Sirees

Only my characters truly know what's going on - I just hold the pen. — Sandra J. Jackson

I really do think with my pen, because my head often knows nothing about what my hand is writing. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches. — Robert Orben

Just what I need." Pen throws back the blankets. "Another man in my life. At least this one doesn't speak. — Lauren DeStefano

When an author sleeps, her brain creates more stories for her pen. — Evelyn Smith

The paper is your canvas. The pen is your brush. Create your masterpiece. — Julian Vaughan Hampton

Your eyes make me pick up my pen and write. — Avijeet Das

I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out. — John Cleveland

Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus. — Joseph Joubert

Nobody ever looks behind the pen. — Khali Raymond

Proper writing ink comes in a bottle, can be swirled like brandy in a glass, and smells like apple blossom after rain. — Fennel Hudson

You say grace before meals. I say grace before I dip the pen in the ink. — G.K. Chesterton

A scholar's weapon is his pen;
a sage's weapon, his deeds. — Matshona Dhliwayo

He picked up the fountain pen and clicked the top on and off a few times while he listened. — Hugh Laurie

The gun is mightier than the pen, was our true opinion, and the RPG is mightier still. — Lydia Millet

In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

We will absolutely respect the law until we are in government at the national level and can change it. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

Putting pen to paper without first deciding the route and pace at which to scribe is like setting off on a bicycle without first checking the tyres. — Fennel Hudson

Anyone who says the pen is mightier than the sword has never come face-to-face with a gun. — Rabih Alameddine

Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages. — Voltaire

For some the most terrible aspect of it was the deportations, while for others it was the leveling bombings or the mass deaths by starvation and cold. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen. — Gustave Flaubert

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath. — Spalding Gray

The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen. — Colette

Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy. — Henri Frederic Amiel

The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

God's justice will always be found at the end of a pen. — Shannon L. Alder

I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen. — Thomas Carlyle

I only hold the pen while my mind does the writing — P.J. Bayliss

I'm not letting him write anything. I didn't do anything. I just took his pen. — Jason Williams

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army. — Orson Welles

You aren't looking for a pen pal, and if need be, say that. — Keith Grafman

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty. — John Philip Sousa

Don't use pencil, for writing on your lover's heart it might erase. Always use ball point pen. — Biranchi Narayan

Sebastian notices the girl too, so he opens up his binder to a fresh sheet of paper, then takes out a pen and writes, I still really miss you. — Lauren Barnholdt

If life's pen; passion is ink! — Israelmore Ayivor

They favour learning whose actions are worthy of a learned pen. — George Herbert

The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing. — William Wordsworth

Rejection process is not fun. It's the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward. — Jonah Lehrer

Editing is such a voyeuristic treat for me. I land on a theme and ask authors to pen works that fit the topic. — Alison Tyler

Did you know the pen is stronger than the knife: they can kill you once but they can't kill you twice. — Damian Marley

Each time you write something, part of you grows. You're training your artistic muscles to find your voice. — Pen Densham

Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent. — Michelangelo Buonarroti

Devon: "Why, Bryn, I do believe he's given her your pen."
Bryn: "Well, get Freud on the phone. He'll have a field day with this one. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Before I could even hold a pen I was singing. — Melanie Fiona

You made a writer keep faith in his pen. — Avijeet Das

It's quite simple. I just don't feel right without a pen in my hand denting a hole through my notepad. — Veronika Carnaby

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

History belongs to she who holds the pen ... If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told. — Julianne Malveaux

I gave her my heart, she gave me a pen. — Cameron Crowe

What are you going to do if you find art, Pen? You going to steal some and put it in the van?"
"I'm going to remember. When there was art. — Francesca Lia Block

When writing the story of your life, don't let anyone else hold the pen. — Annisa Widi Astuty

Your mind is a book; God is the pen. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way — Jacques Barzun

Like Ice Cube asks, "Why are more niggers in the pen than in college?" It's easier to go to the pen than it is to go to college. — Snoop Dogg

No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen! — Anton Szandor LaVey

I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that. — Theo Van Gogh

The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world. — Anthony Liccione

I finally decide I'm just going to stab him a thousand times with a ballpoint pen. — John Green

We write or we are written upon. The whole of our lives is the clumsy attempt to wield the pen with grace. — Vincent Louis Carrella

Whether it's a computer or a pen drawing, design is about drawing shapes and making physical things. — Jake Barton

Life is the greatest chance that has been given to all of us. So how do you choose to live your life? You've got a pen. Write it down. — Kcat Yarza

The pen is mightier than the sword - It's also easier to write with! — Benny Hill

I'm just a girl, with a pen and a dream — Nikki Rowe

I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence. — M T Anderson

The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour. — Lincoln Child

I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom. — Jay Dratler

The chisel is the pen of the sculptor. — Pope Pius IX

If you get stuck, draw with a different pen. Change your tools; it may free your thinking. — Paul Arden

My pen is alight and my body aflame. Until both burn down to ash, my love and my hate will remain here in the world. — Ba Jin

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro. — Terry Pratchett

The finest achievements are those of the pen ... To me God the Father is a writer. — Leslie Caron

I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I'm yet to pen a script, but it is something that I've been telling myself I want to do. — Luke Treadaway

I am a Pen & I am born to Write. — Himanshu Chhabra

She was a femme fatale with creative license, and she was sharpening her pen just for me. — M.K. Williams

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition. — John Adams

The pen might be mightier than the sword, but the keyboard never runs out of ink. — Jason Landry

Give me a paper and pen, so I can write about my life of sin. A couple of bottles of gin, in case I don't get in. — Tupac Shakur

Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold. — Horace Walpole

Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work. — Sinclair Lewis

I like to write paper mail - nobody does that anymore - with my pen pals. — Hilarie Burton

A form of protectionism should be enforced at national level, at least on strategic areas such as agriculture. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

Life is a poem
just waiting to be written,
lift your pen and speak. — Susie Clevenger

Putting pen to paper lights more fire than matches ever will — Malcolm Forbes

I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems. — David Almond

Genius does not need to be validated, it just needs a legal pad and a pen. — Tom Althouse

I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it. — Karen Joy Fowler

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

Would that I had more ability! But my heart is so full, and my pen is so weak! — Harriet Jacobs

For a while, it's just the sound of the water, and then Pen says, I didn't want him to die. — Lauren DeStefano

There's Power in the Pen! — Katavious Ellis

What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

Never trust someone else to write your life story. Take the pen, and write it yourself. — Ellen J. Barrier

Hand her the notebook and pen and then back out of the driveway. — Colleen Hoover

The pencil is mightier than the pen. — Robert M. Pirsig

All the friends in the world are in the fountain of a pen. — Michelle Franklin

Don't go crazy with art supplies at first. Just get a sketchbook and a pen that'll fit in your bag and keep them with you for when a moment opens up. — Danny Gregory

I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation. — Tara Bray Smith

I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was trying to show him certain parts of a piece of paper. — Mitch Hedberg