Pen Quotes
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People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
Walt Disney -
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
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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.
Samuel Lover -
I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.
J. A. Konrath -
I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.
Wayne Dyer -
Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties.
Harlan Coben -
So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.
Upamanyu Chatterjee -
When I'm writing songs, some days the pen just goes. I'm not in charge and I'm almost listening outside of it. That's when I realize that we all have to start looking at life as a gift. It's like listening to a color and believing that these colors have soul mates and once you get them all together the painting is complete.
Prince
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To change the world you'll need a pen.
Donald Miller -
A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!
Natsuki Takaya -
You may not like my burglar, but please don't damage him.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Go to any Shinto temple in Japan and you'll see it: a simple stand from which hang hundreds of wooden postcard-size plaques with a colorful image on one side and, on the other, densely scribbled Japanese characters in black felt-tip pen, pleas to the gods for help or succor.
Hanya Yanagihara -
Let me tell you what I look like: pale face, long hair, and a tiny start of a paunch. In addition, an awkward gait, and a cigar in the mouth and a pen in pocket or hand.
Albert Einstein -
I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
Alexandre Dumas
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I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
Honore de Balzac -
Rebecca West can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.
George Bernard Shaw -
When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.
Honore de Balzac -
I wish I were better at… photography. Sometimes it feels like I can’t capture everything with just a pen.
Alice Kuipers -
You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel -
I've been writing since I was 11. But I don't write with a pen, I just sing at the piano with one eye shut like a pirate.
Freya Ridings
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I near felt bad he choose to be so evil. I am a forgiving woman, but my pen... oh my wicked wicked hormonal she-pen.
Coco J. Ginger -
I hear better with a pen in my hand.
Alan Edwin Petty -
A pen is different from the pad, the key, moving your fingers across a screen. I like both. I like to work on sketchbooks, big old white sketch paper. I like how that feels, and I like to put different media on it. Then there's the phone, smartphone, iPad: It's the new page, and it's not the same page anymore.
Juan Felipe Herrera -
I can always live by my pen.
Jane Austen