Pen Quotes

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. (Sydney Smith)

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Graham Greene

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

William Makepeace Thackeray

I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.

Mitch Hedberg

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

Max Beerbohm

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

Maimonides

Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.

Marlo Thomas

She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Henry James

My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, 'Would he had blotted a thousand.' (Ben Jonson)

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

John Millington Synge

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.

Julia Ward Howe

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

Malala Yousafzai

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 been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Jane Austen

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

Paul Simon

And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.

William Blake

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

William Wordsworth

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!"

John Greenleaf Whittier

My pen and paper cause a chain reaction, to get your brain relaxing. (Eminem)

To hold a pen is to be at war.

Voltaire

I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

Honoré de Balzac

A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.

Michael Ondaatje

You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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