Pens Quotes

• The pen is the lever that moves the world.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Moving, World, Levers

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1870). “Crumbs Swept Up”, p.256

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• however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Writing, Water, Levels

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• Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Dream, Hands, Giving

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• The pen is the tongue of the mind.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Teacher, Writing, Mind

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1867). “Don Quixote”, p.370

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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

  Writing, Paper

  Peter Greenaway, Sei Shōnagon (1996). “The pillow book”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• The pen is in your hands, the rest is still unwritten.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Graduation, Hands, Stills

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• If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• Putting pen to paper lights more fire than matches ever will

  Malcolm Forbes

  Fire, Light, Paper

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• There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Inspiring, Lying, Writing

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Henry Esmond: And Lovel the Widower”, p.106

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• A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

  John Adams

  Ambition, Men, Presidential

  Diary and Autobiography, 14 Nov. 1760

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• A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.

  Rumi

  Writing, Broke

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.287, Penguin UK

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• None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

  Mark Twain

  Trying, Half, Virtue

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.496, Courier Corporation

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

  Dale Dauten

  Business, Brain, Printer

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• When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.

  Thomas Paine

  Passion, Men, Tongue

  Thomas Paine (1856). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.5

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• Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when Im alone. But when one is elevated into the stature of an author, you have to think about your books in terms of their business angle.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Thoth, Hermes, the stylus,
  the palette, the pen, the quill endure,
  though our books are a floor
  of smouldering ash under our feet.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Book, Feet, Ashes

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.518, New Directions Publishing

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• Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.

  George Eliot

  Punishment, Rewards, Tongue

  George Eliot (1954). “The George Eliot Letters: 1836-1851”

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• They favour learning whose actions are worthy of a learned pen.

  George Herbert

  Favour, Action, Worthy

  George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.184

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• I have a real aversion to machines. I write with a pen. Then I read it to someone who writes it onto the computer. What are those computer letters made of anyway? Light? Too insubstantial. Paper, you can feel it. A pen. There's a connection. A pen goes exactly at your speed, whereas that machine jumps. And then, that machine is waiting for you, just humming "uh-huh, yes?

  Fran Lebowitz

  Real, Writing, Light

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• I like things to be orderly. For seven years I ate at Bob's Big Boy. I would go at 2:30, after the lunch rush. I ate a chocolate shake and four, five, six, seven cups of coffee-with lots of sugar. And there's lots of sugar in that chocolate shake. It's a thick shake. In a silver goblet. I would get a rush from all this sugar, and I would get so many ideas! I would write them on these napkins. It was like I had a desk with paper. All I had to do was remember to bring my pen, but a waitress would give me one if I remembered to return it at the end of my stay. I got a lot of ideas at Bob's.

  David

  Coffee, Writing, Boys

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• To change the world you'll need a pen.

  Donald Miller

  Needs, World, Changing The World

  Twitter post from May 30, 2015

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• I'm not a writer. I marvel at writing. I am sometimes absolutely astounded when I read something and I think how in the world did that man or that woman sit down at a typewriter, a computer or a pen and an ink well, and seemingly have nothing come between their heart and that pen.

  Kevin Spacey

  Writing, Heart, Men

  "An evening with Richard II". The Telegraph Interview, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 10, 2005.

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• Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels.

  Neil Simon

  Writing, Hands, May

  Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.

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• 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.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Two, Competition, Stronger

  Speech at Islamia College for women, March 25, 1940.

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• Actions are destiny's pen.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Destiny, Action

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