Pen Quotes Quotes & Sayings

when I look at people fighting with ammunition and weapons of all kind I ponder within me;somehow as a cynic. Ammunition's and weapons are good for war; Yes,they are better necessities to winning battle but the best choice of weapons are neither ammunition nor the strength of a battalion of army but wisdom; a pen on a paper backed by a great mind — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

We write for reasons beyond that which we can see at the time of pen touching paper. ~ Ryan Mark, Author of Tremor — Ryan Mark

The pen is mightier than the sword, for by the sword are mortal battles waged, but by the pen entire cultures swayed, eternal societies arrayed, and souls of men saved. — Ilyan Kei Lavanway

sometimes i am not sure.
if i am
writing the poem
or the poem
is writing me. — Sanober Khan

A pen, a piece of white paper, and an idea can create a new you. — Debasish Mridha

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning. — Anne Tyler

My pen beats faster as I write with my heart — Munia Khan

You don't need a big pen to write a tall story — Benny Bellamacina

When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach. — Rob Bignell, Editor

If you could hear the angels pen your deeds... what would you be doing with your life? — Aisha Mirza

Taliban stands for student; own a pen not gun. — Vinita Kinra

I wore you on me at all times
Like I now carry my pen.
Unlike your own opinion my
Belongings must have a function.
You bled through the ink of my lines and
To be my subject nursed your thirst.

Was it my fault, or your own, that you forgot
- I do not deal in tender verse. — Mie Hansson

Prepare well! Take two inks; you may never know when one pen will stop writing! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

There is a voice in my head that is only silenced by the scratching of my pen — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

A scholar's weapon is his pen;
a sage's weapon, his deeds. — Matshona Dhliwayo

He who fights with guns and knives is a coward! For how easy is it to kill with the single pull of a trigger? And how does human flesh stand to a sharpened metal? Even an idiot can kill with a gun and a knife! A man needs no courage at all to stand behind these things that make him feel invincible and bigger than he ever will be! I don't say that no one should fight! Because battles must be fought, and wars will always be won! But let those who fight, fight with bare hands! The measure of true strength! With his hands and feet and nothing but! The country with truly strong men is able to have soldiers that need not a knife, that need no guns! And if you can soar even higher than that; fight with your pens! Let us all write! And see the substance of the man through his philosophies and through his beliefs! And let one philosophy outdo another! Let one belief outlast another! And let this be how we determine the outcome of a war! — C. JoyBell C.

Go ahead and eat your bread, a time will come when it shall get to you breath. Go ahead and leave your pen, exams will come when you shall remember the pen! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

the pen is as wise as the mind that speaks through it — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A pen name is a nickname. — A.D. Posey

Your eyes make me pick up my pen and write. — Avijeet Das

he
opened me up
like a book
& poured the
poetry
back into
me.

-my personal pen and paper — Amanda Lovelace

Writing is like painting with words, the paper is the canvas, the pen is the brush, the words are the colors and the verbs, nouns and adjectives are the blending of the hues that add depth to the picture you are creating.
-Reed Abbitt Moore- — Reed Abbitt Moore

Poetry, when you saw me coming in your direction with a pen and my problems, why didn't you run and hide like the rest? — Delano Johnson

The heart guides the pen. — J.R. Ortiz

If the pen really is mightier than the sword then you guys better watch out, because I wrote my whole 700,000 w0rd trilogy in longhand! — M.R. Mathias

To wake up every day with a whisper of a dream and then put pen to paper to make it a reality — Samuel Colbran

Your sensitivity, your tenderness, your eyes make me pick up my pen and write, Mrignayni! — Avijeet Das

I am no writer. Her sparkling eyes made my fingers write words in the sand. Her radiant smile made my pen write words in the air. Her beautiful soul made my typewriter type poems for eternity. I am no writer. — Avijeet Das

Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand. — Carla H. Krueger

Some want to be writers when life permits it. There is no part-time in being a writer. It's an all-in way of living your life through words and feelings scratched out with a pen. — Jason E. Hodges

Becoming a writer does not mean words will suddenly flow with perfection from your pen. It takes hard work, rejection, and the willingness to lay everything inside you out for the world to see. — Jason E. Hodges

When an author sleeps, her brain creates more stories for her pen. — Evelyn Smith

When things around me (life) twists its blade into my flesh, I return to the pen & write. I inhale 'passion' and exhale 'story'. #breathe — Ace Antonio Hall

Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had not desecrated by underlining her favorite sections with a ball-point pen. Once I had told her that I would rather see a museum bombed than a book underlined, but she dismissed my argument as mere sentimentality. She marked her books so that stunning images and ideas would not be lost to her. — Pat Conroy

I knew I could not sketch a woman, in all her natural inner beauty. I may have the perfect skill, but putting something in pen and paper, is interesting, unique, nothing less than a challenge. — Deepak Ranjan

A pen in my hand, a glaring in my mind,
A tyrant could not subdue me. — Nida Mahmoed

Hone your writing skills as if they were your finest weapons of war. For in the literary arena, your pen will truly be your sword. — Max Hawthorne

I am a creator, writing like the wind, I carry the weight of a future world in the barrel of a pen, etching my characters into the paper with life giving ink so my dreams and reality might finally meet. — L.M. Fields

To create peace, be a soldier of peace with a pen not a soldier of war with a gun. — Debasish Mridha

If everyone took his pen and wrote just anything that came on his mind, we would greatly help researchers to understand how our minds work — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little. — John Galsworthy

Like a bird, my thoughts were flying away so I became a writer to cage my thoughts with paper and pen. You should not call me a writer but rather a catcher of thoughts. — Debasish Mridha

Getting a spark of inspiration to write is the best feeling in the world, no matter what time it is...I get a feeling on the inside that urges me to get up from whatever I am doing, grabbing that pen and writing down whatever my heart and mind tell me too... it's beautiful." — Sontia Levy-Mason

I shoot with my pen with the bullets of love. — Debasish Mridha

Tickle my heart with your pen. Write me for all to read. Bind our love inside a book. Make me your poetry. — N'Zuri Za Austin

Don't use pencil, for writing on your lover's heart it might erase. Always use ball point pen. — Biranchi Narayan

The poet drafts his work as a writer but edits it as a sculptor, with his pen as a chisel and his mind a hammer. — Agona Apell

Now, as we close one chapter, the pen is gradually inking up, preparing itself to write the next. — Mie Hansson

There lived a poet in the lands of gold,
Wrote along poems unaffected by warmth or cold,
His words spoke truth and pen's stroke was bold,
His only motive: lives to mould — Adhish Mazumder

I balance you
on the end of my pen.
Teetering between love
and letting go. — Jessica Kristie

From "Six Degrees of Scandal".
My favorite quotes from this book are by Joan and Abigail speaking to Penelope. If you read, you will understand their comments.
J-"Don't tell me you don't feel a true connection to the characters in your favorite books". A-"That is true, Pen. Just because they aren't real people doesn't make characters less ... real". — Caroline Linden

Best friend is like a pen and we're the paper. We'll not complete without their ink — Lucy 'Aisy

God is funny. He had a funny day when he made me. A funny, thoughtful, crazy day. He gave me a physique by which I would be so easily and so quickly judged, then gave me a mind by which I would so deeply magnetize, He put within me a heart with small, fast wings that I can hardly, barely handle, and then gave me a voice that hides behind everything in whispers. Oh, and also put a pen in my hand which writes me into madness! How can anyone possibly understand me? But I don't think God cared about that thought, when He made me! How ridiculously unfair! — C. JoyBell C.

When penciling in your future, always use a pen — Benny Bellamacina

The solicitor he selected, a Mr Makepeace, had demanded five thousand pounds up front, even before he took the top off his fountain pen, and then another five once he'd briefed Alex Redmayne, the barrister who would represent him in Court. Danny couldn't understand why he needed two lawyers to do the same job. — Jeffrey Archer

Let the mind contemplate, let the pen scribble, the oeuvre would be eccentric, peculiar to a reader's eye. — Shilpa Sandesh

The eloquence of the pen is just as sharp as the point of a sword. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Is the pen really mightier than the sword? I suppose that depends on how sharp the pen is, and the strength of the warrior wielding it. — Max Hawthorne

I'm just a girl, with a pen and a dream — Nikki Rowe