Pen Quotes

You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.

I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.

Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply.

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

I'm not formal and I'm impatient. So I think my team would say that when she starts tapping her pen and the leg starts moving quickly, that it's time to move on. I'm not good at long, drawn-out kinds of sessions.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.

A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.

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

Give us that grand word "woman" once again, and let's have done with "lady"; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.

The pen is mightier than the sword, and is considerably easier to write with.

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

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 condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.

I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

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.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

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

Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.

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 bring a pen and paper to jot down sudden thoughts and ideas. So inspiration arises from countless sources.

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 verses for these creatures.