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Pen Quotes

Short lines on the tool behind every written word.

These quotes look at the pen as more than an object, from comparisons with modern word processors to the idea that picking one up to write is itself a kind of confrontation. See related lines under Book.

I will surely pen my autobiography.

Quotes by Adnan Sami

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.

Quotes by Adam Ant

I always have a good pen with me.

Quotes by Abbi Jacobson

The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other hand, what you have to say and how you say it is the ultimate determination.

Quotes by Walter Murch

Always Quotes

I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.

Quotes by Walid Jumblatt

To hold a pen is to be at war.

Voltaire

The disparity between the haves and have-nots was always blatantly obvious to me, and it's that exact gap that drove me to start writing and pick up a pen. I wanted to explain and understand the world around me because...

Quotes by Vic Mensa

So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.

Quotes by Upamanyu Chatterjee

When I was as little as four years old, my mom would give me a pen and paper and tell me to write a story to keep me busy.

Quotes by Tracie Peterson

Book Quotes

As bad as the Obama administration is at trying to legislate without legislators, all too often, Congress is responsible for handing them the 'pen and phone.'

Quotes by Todd Young

Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.

Quotes by Todd Solondz

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

Quotes by Theo Van Gogh

We play a beat for 15, 20 seconds and know if we want to get on it. When we record a verse, it's no more than 15, 20 minutes. We don't have a pen and paper. We bounce off each...

Quotes by Takeoff

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.

Quotes by Sydney Smith

Good Quotes

I use a quill pen dipped in India ink. I also like Faber-Castell brush pens and Pigma Micron pens. And I work on Duo-Shade board.

Quotes by Steve Breen

I wrote two novels about a yoga studio in Los Angeles published by Penguin under the pen name Rain Mitchell.

Quotes by Stephen McCauley

No two composers were more totally at home in front of the piano than Debussy and Chopin, hands to keys to strings to sound waves to pen and paper in one perfect gesture of inspiration.

Quotes by Stephen Hough

The name came about from me just closing my eyes and sticking a pen on a map of South Africa. St. Lucia was the fifth place that the pen landed on.

Quotes by St. Lucia

I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.

Quotes by Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Like Quotes

I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.

Quotes by Shelby Foote

One entry frames writing as a response to noticing unfairness in the world, a reminder that the pen has long served as a starting point for explaining what a writer sees. Browse Good quotes for more on purpose and craft.