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.
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.
In 2011, I did an internship in Seven Dials, a junction in London where seven roads come together. I'd given up on writing after multiple rejections for my first novel, and I was starting to consider a career in publishing...
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I use a ball pen because fountain pens are clumsy, and I get ink all over my fingers by the time I finish with it.
I love to read. I'm still pen pals with my ninth-grade English teacher, Mr. Shanley. He tells me what books to read.
Under Obama, our federal tax dollars can now be used to fund abortion all over the world. With the stroke of a pen, abortion essentially became a U.S. foreign export.
The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.
Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
While writing a normal song, we just pen four lines and then we have a chorus and some lines again. But rap is about storytelling and requires extra effort to write.
I write by hand and then transfer the text onto the computer. I like the process of actually having a pen in my hand. Things flow more easily for me that way.
If your story is being told by someone who doesn't really know it, it's not going to come out accurate. A lot of it has to do with context. Whoever's behind the camera or pen or whatever.
A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.
I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections.
We want a money that some government mandarin can't just whisk into existence with a pen stroke.
When I started writing, I didn't have the common sense to use a pseudonym, so I write under my own name. If I did have a pen name, though, it would be something very historical - something that sounds very...
I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday.
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