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Pen Quotes

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

– Harriet Ann Jacobs

Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil.

– Grace Darling

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

– Graham Greene

I like to write paper mail – nobody does that anymore – with my pen pals.

– Hilarie Burton

Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.

– Jane Velez-Mitchell

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

– James Joyce

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.

– Jack Prelutsky

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

– Julia Ward Howe

A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

– J. R. R. Tolkien

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, it will.

– Buffy Sainte-Marie

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.

– Bethany Mota

I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone – and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

– Barack Obama

I’m not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it’s really that simple.

– Anthony Horowitz

It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn’t pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.

– Adam Ant

I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.

– Colm Toibin

I’m fighting for Marine Le Pen to become president.

– Marion Marechal-Le Pen

I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn’t have enough confidence to use a pen.

– Garry Shandling

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

– Marty Feldman

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

– Michael Ondaatje

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

– Dale Dauten

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there.

– George A. Moore

I’ve always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil – especially for corrections.

– Paul Auster

I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday.

– Nelson DeMille

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

– Mary Harris Jones

Before I could even hold a pen I was singing.

– Melanie Fiona

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

– Marty Feldman

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

– Petrarch

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.

– Georg C. Lichtenberg

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 write a letter from wherever we landed.

– Daniela Pestova

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