1.
I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me.
Juana Inés de la Cruz
2.
The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.
Marcus Garvey
3.
I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.
Terry Pratchett
4.
No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus.
Samuel Rutherford
6.
It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated.
Angelina Grimke
8.
All I'm about is just the pen.
Pusha T
9.
I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.
Oscar Niemeyer
10.
The pen is mightier than the sword, if you shoot that pen out of a gun
Stephen Colbert
11.
The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.
Malala Yousafzai
12.
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
Victor Hugo
14.
A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure)
Natsuki Takaya
15.
The pen is mightier than the sword ... if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
Terry Pratchett
18.
Comedians are really writers who don't
have pens and pencils about them, but
they riff.
Carl Reiner
19.
No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!
Anton Szandor LaVey
20.
Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again.
Johnny Depp
21.
Life in the pen ain't for me 'cos I'd rather die.
Tupac Shakur
22.
History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.
Julianne Malveaux
23.
Don't go back over your life with a red pen.
Gary Gulman
26.
Sadly, there are more wild horses in holding pens than in the wild.
Willie Nelson
27.
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
Petrarch
29.
What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
Jules Verne
30.
I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk than the fury of a merciless pen.
Thomas Browne
32.
My only weapon is my pen, I'm a songwriter.
Sly Stone
33.
No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.
Thomas Carlyle
34.
I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.
Gustave Flaubert
35.
Even the most deft pen is a clumsy tool.
Alex Ebert
36.
I hear better with a pen in my hand.
Alan Judd
38.
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
39.
I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.
Jonathan Carroll
40.
A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.
Rumi
41.
Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.
Mark Twain
42.
This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.
Peter Greenaway
45.
When you are telling your story, hold your own ink pen. Don't let anybody else tell your story.
Tracy Martin
46.
A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
47.
Some people are in charge of pens who shouldn't be in charge of brooms.
Graham Parker
50.
Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
Jasper Fforde