Pen Quotes

Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.

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.

My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I'd sketch shoes and shoes and shoes.

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

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.

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.

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.

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.

Being attached to America these days is like being in a pen with a wounded bull.

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.

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

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than 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 don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.

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.

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

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.