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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.

Because I don't produce insulin, I have to put insulin into my body, which means that I have a pen with a needle on it. I have it with me. You have to stick it in your thigh, or your...

Quotes by Jay Cutler

I'm not letting him write anything. I didn't do anything. I just took his pen.

Quotes by Jason Williams

It's always nice when people discover I'm a normal person and not, because of my appearance, a half-crazed lunatic who may stab them with a Bic pen.

Quotes by Jason Mantzoukas

I'm a total technophobe. What is wrong with paper and pen? I was delighted when I learnt the word 'Luddite,' as I thought it described me perfectly.

Quotes by Jasmine Guinness

Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.

Quotes by Jane Velez-Mitchell

For some reason, some of my best solutions and ideas are triggered in those dark theaters, usually totally unrelated to what's going on onscreen. I also enjoy hiking in the foothills and mountains close to Sacramento. I always have to...

Quotes by James Rollins

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

James Joyce

I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter if I wrote them or not.

Quotes by Jake Owen

Whether it's digital or physical, a pencil or a pen: line work. Humans are making things. And out of that comes the entire designed world we live within.

Quotes by Jake Barton

Whether it's a computer or a pen drawing, design is about drawing shapes and making physical things.

Quotes by Jake Barton

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce...

Quotes by Jack Prelutsky

I've always been able to write. I've always been able to put a good essay in or say whatever I wanted to say through the pen. That was a gift of mine. I feel like it was what I was...

Quotes by J.I.D

I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.

Quotes by J. A. Konrath

It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost...

Quotes by Immanuel Velikovsky

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

Quotes by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Quotes by Horace

I like to write paper mail - nobody does that anymore - with my pen pals.

Quotes by Hilarie Burton

Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.

Quotes by Henry Vaughan

I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.

Quotes by Helmut Newton

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

Quotes by Harriet Ann Jacobs

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.