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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 live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.

Quotes by Maira Kalman

I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.

Quotes by Mackenzie Crook

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.

Quotes by Luke Treadaway

I do my best to make every word from my pen a cry from the heart for the souls of the dead.

Quotes by Liu Xiaobo

That's what I love about writing is you don't need anyone's permission to do it. You can just get up in the morning, grab a pad and pen and start writing.

Quotes by Leigh Whannell

Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies.

Quotes by Laura Wade

I've lost my share in the pen. I don't keep track, but I've won much more than I've lost. Since I was released almost one year ago, I've gone 9-1. My only loss was to a punk that brought mace...

Quotes by Kimbo Slice

If you want a transcript of tonight's program, get a pen and write down everything I said.

Quotes by Kevin Nealon

When you wake up, instead of checking emails on your phone, or counting your retweets, pick up a pen and scratch a few sentences into a notebook.

Quotes by Kevin Barry

I'm more of a feel pitcher. If something's wrong, I don't watch a video. I go throw in the bull pen until it feels right.

Quotes by Justin Verlander

I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books.

Quotes by Joseph Fiennes

I wear my Pen as others do their Sword.

Quotes by John Oldham

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

Quotes by John Millington Synge

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

Quotes by John Greenleaf Whittier

I always do book signings with the same blue pen. That way, if I add a personalised message to a book I've already signed, it'll be in the same colour as my signature.

Quotes by John Grisham

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.

Quotes by John Ciardi

There's something special about writing by hand, writing with a fountain pen, and there's something special about writing into a book, to take a blank book and turn it into an actual book.

Quotes by Joe Haldeman

In this manner, I continued with Satan for ten days. His answer and blasphemy were too shocking to pen; till I was worn out with rage and malice against him, I could not bear myself.

Quotes by Joanna Southcott

Trust me, I did not set out to establish three pen names and, for the record, I do not recommend it as a career strategy. The idea back at the start was that I would stick with the name that...

Quotes by Jayne Ann Krentz

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

Quotes by Jay Dratler

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.