Pen Quotes
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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
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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
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To change the world you'll need a pen.
Donald Miller
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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
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You may not like my burglar, but please don't damage him.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it far more easily than he can kill other people.
George Dennison Prentice
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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
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...The simple little words came easily, fitting themselves to the tune that had come out of the harpsichord. It didn't seem to her that she made them up at all. It seemed to her that they flew in from the rose-garden, through the open window, like a lot of butterflies, poised themselves on the point of her pen, and fell off it on to the paper.
Elizabeth Goudge
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I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
Honore de Balzac
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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 wish I were better at… photography. Sometimes it feels like I can’t capture everything with just a pen.
Alice Kuipers
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Rebecca West can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.
George Bernard Shaw
