quotes about Pens
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I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.
-- A. S. Byatt -
I hear better with a pen in my hand.
-- Alan JuddSource : Alan Judd (1995). “Devil's Own Work”, Vintage Books
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Bathe in your riches and friends, I'll stay here with my songbooks and pens
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It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated.
-- Angelina GrimkeSource : Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.96, Penguin
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Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.
-- Carl ReinerSource : Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. October 2004.
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Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.
-- Daniel HandlerSource : "The Light Fantastic". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1986.
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What happens to us all, I think, when we pick up a pen, is that we just become snobs.
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Some people are in charge of pens who shouldn't be in charge of brooms.
-- Graham Parker -
Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel -
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Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
-- Jack Kerouac -
Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again.
-- Johnny Depp -
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I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.
-- Jonathan Carroll -
I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me.
-- Juana Inés de la Cruz -
When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.
-- Karl Kraus -
No one has invented a condom for the pen yet
-- Khushwant Singh -
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But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.
-- Laurence Sterne -
The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.
-- Malala Yousafzai -
The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.
-- Marcus Garvey -
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Before I could even hold a pen I was singing.
-- Melanie Fiona -
I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.
-- Oscar NiemeyerSource : "I pick up my pen. A building appears". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2007.
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As an artist, you reach for the pen that's full of blood.
-- Paul Monette -
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This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.
-- Peter Greenaway -
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
-- Petrarch -
Throwaway pens are no good - I never liked them. I've tried them all.
-- Robert Crumb -
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No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus.
-- Samuel RutherfordSource : Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.344
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I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.
-- Spalding Gray -
The pen is mightier than the sword, if you shoot that pen out of a gun
-- Stephen Colbert -
The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
-- Terry Pratchett -
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I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.
-- Terry Pratchett -
Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.
-- Todd Solondz -
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Maybe there's something new that can document an idea quicker, but pen and paper have always been pretty handy for me.
-- Grant HartSource : Source: music.avclub.com
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I always had the urge to write. Not in the sense of wanting to be a writer, but just writing things down, getting words on a page. Graphomania, it's called. I've always had a definite love of stationary products - I used to spend all my pocket-money on pens and notepads. I still do, in a way.
-- Maggie O'Farrell -
I've put down my scrivener's pen. These days i prefer not to.
-- Mike Noonan -
My hand and pen are not in plight, As they have been of yore.
-- Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden -
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When you are telling your story, hold your own ink pen. Don't let anybody else tell your story.
-- Tracy Martin -
There's something about working in adverse conditions. It keeps it interesting. I always notice if I ever sit down with a pen and piece of paper and a guitar, and I have a beverage and an ashtray and I'm comfortable on the couch, I fall asleep.
-- Brendan Benson -
History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.
-- Julianne Malveaux -