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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.

An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.

Quotes by Edmund Phelps

A writer without a pen would be like a duck without water!

Quotes by Donovan

Sheep may not be brilliant, but they know that sheep in pen is stage number one of lamb chops.

Quotes by Donald McCaig

It is easy to criticize me from behind a pen or a microphone, from someone who never set foot on a football field.

Quotes by Diego Forlan

It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.

Quotes by David Brock

I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to...

Quotes by Daniela Pestova

I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India.

Quotes by Damon Galgut

It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.

Quotes by Dale Dauten

How do you solve a mystery? How do you write a book? The techniques for starting both are surprisingly similar. Find an intriguing question and, pen and dagger tucked under cloak, search for clues.

Quotes by Claire Cameron

I was writing fantasy as soon as I could hold a pen.

Quotes by Cecilia Dart-Thornton

I discovered it was easier to carry around a pen than a piano.

Quotes by Carolyn Kizer

The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.

Quotes by C. S. Forester

When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush,...

Quotes by Buffy Sainte-Marie

I think now, whenever I write, there is nothing that will really compare to pen and paper.

Quotes by Bishop Briggs

The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.

Quotes by Billy Collins

If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen.

Quotes by Bill Owens

Novels by British writers are among my favorites because our family has enjoyed travel in England and because they are written with an economy of words as if they were written with a pen instead of a computer. Penelope Fitzgerald...

Quotes by Beverly Cleary

Maybelline's Precise Ink Pen Liner is by far the easiest liquid eyeliner I've ever used. I'm really bad at applying liquid liner, and it glides on so nicely and actually stays on all day.

Quotes by Bethany Mota

Without hesitation, I'm voting Emmanuel Macron. Everything about the campaign of Marine Le Pen, despite its dressing of sovereignty, exudes fear and weakness.

Quotes by Bernard Arnault

We're living in extraordinary times, all the time. The issues that assail us are perennial. They haven't changed since the Greeks picked up a pen.

Quotes by Anthony McCarten

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.