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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.

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.

Quotes by Samuel Lover

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...

Quotes by Samantha Shannon

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.

Quotes by Ruskin Bond

I love to read. I'm still pen pals with my ninth-grade English teacher, Mr. Shanley. He tells me what books to read.

Quotes by Rooney Mara

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.

Quotes by Rick Perry

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

Quotes by Rick Bragg

Never leave a pen around me - it will be gone.

Quotes by Reem Acra

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.

Quotes by Rami Malek

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.

Quotes by Raftaar

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

Quotes by Quentin Tarantino

Le Pen is old; I'm young.

Quotes by Pim Fortuyn

Le Pen is a petit bourgeois nationalist.

Quotes by Pim Fortuyn

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.

Quotes by Philip Kerr

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.

Quotes by Petra Collins

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

Quotes by Petrarch

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.

Quotes by Paul Graham

I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections.

Quotes by Paul Auster

We want a money that some government mandarin can't just whisk into existence with a pen stroke.

Quotes by Patrick M. Byrne

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...

Quotes by Nicola Cornick

I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday.

Quotes by Nelson DeMille

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.