Pens Quotes

• I jack, I rob, I sin. Aw man, I'm Jackie Robinson 'Cept when I run base, I dodge the pen

  

  Jay-Z
  • Men
  • Running
  • Sin

• Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Wall
  • Creative
  • Sat

• I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I cross out a lot - I'm not writing in stone tablets, it's just ink on paper. I don't feel comfortable without a pen or a pencil in my hand. I can't think with my fingers on the keyboard. Words are generated for me by gripping the pen, and pressing the point on the paper.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Computer

• Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Really
  • Pens
  • Comedians

• 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.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Lost
  • Door
  • Fame

• The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Angel
  • Fairy
  • Feathers

• For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins Shall forth at vast of night that they may work All exercise on thee. Thou shalt be pinched As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging Than bees that made 'em.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Night
  • Exercise
  • Bees

• If we begin to stop spewing the negative and really move into using our voices and our pens and our abilities that we have to reach millions of people to the positive, we can make a difference in the world.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • People
  • World
  • Stop

• Lay down the axe; fling by the spade; Leave in its track the toiling plough; The rifle and the bayonet-blade For arms like yours were fitter now; And let the hands that ply the pen Quit the light task, and learn to wield The horseman's crooked brand, and rein The charger on the battle-field.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • War
  • Battle
  • Track

• [Alex] Haley had a tendency to write even more frequently and voluminously to his agents and his editors than he did putting pen to paper in his own books.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Agents

• I feel that the act of writing, in and of itself, is a tool towards probing that which you wouldn't without that pen in your hand. It's a strange, almost neurological phenomenon, and the words seem to generate more words - but only when you're writing. You can't do it in your head.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Writing
  • Strange
  • Phenomenon

• I smoke too much whether it's going well or badly. After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Hand
  • Eye
  • Hands

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

  

  Rick Mercer
  • America
  • Wounded
  • Bulls

• Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Writing
  • Reader
  • Sheep

• I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen, writing things down.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Writing
  • Lost
  • Shows

• I'm called an oral historian, which is something of a joke. Oral history was here long before the pen, long before Gutenberg and the printing press. The difference is I have a tape recorder in my hand.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Differences
  • Jokes
  • Historian

• Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen!

  

  Camille Flammarion
  • Study
  • Leaving
  • Found

• I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a fountain pen, a Parker fountain pen, and I loved it, and I've never liked writing anything with pencils or ball-points.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Why

• Dip your pen into your arteries and write.

  

  William Allen White
  • Writing
  • Arteries
  • Dip

• When people ask me for an autograph I usually ask for a pen and then stab them with it.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • People
  • Asks
  • Autographs

• One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Running
  • Painter
  • Champagne

• How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • People
  • Life
  • Paintbrush

• The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is on my shoulders. Here is the pen and the paper; on the letters in the wire basket I sign my name, I, I, and again I.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • World
  • Fall
  • Block

• Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman "other" or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Reading
  • Flawed
  • Shameful

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