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.
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
Victor Hugo
13.
The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.
Malala Yousafzai
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
16.
No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!
Anton Szandor LaVey
19.
Comedians are really writers who don't
have pens and pencils about them, but
they riff.
Carl Reiner
20.
History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.
Julianne Malveaux
21.
Don't go back over your life with a red pen.
Gary Gulman
22.
Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again.
Johnny Depp
23.
Life in the pen ain't for me 'cos I'd rather die.
Tupac Shakur
24.
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
Petrarch
27.
Sadly, there are more wild horses in holding pens than in the wild.
Willie Nelson
28.
My only weapon is my pen, I'm a songwriter.
Sly Stone
30.
No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.
Thomas Carlyle
31.
I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.
Gustave Flaubert
33.
What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
Jules Verne
34.
I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk than the fury of a merciless pen.
Thomas Browne
35.
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
36.
I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.
Jonathan Carroll
37.
Even the most deft pen is a clumsy tool.
Alex Ebert
38.
I hear better with a pen in my hand.
Alan Judd
40.
A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.
Rumi
41.
Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.
Shia LaBeouf
44.
There's something about working in adverse conditions. It keeps it interesting. I always notice if I ever sit down with a pen and piece of paper and a guitar, and I have a beverage and an ashtray and I'm comfortable on the couch, I fall asleep.
Brendan Benson
45.
Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.
Daniel Handler
46.
I revise like crazy. I start revising before the pen hits the paper.
John Dufresne
47.
My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
48.
I always had the urge to write. Not in the sense of wanting to be a writer, but just writing things down, getting words on a page. Graphomania, it's called. I've always had a definite love of stationary products - I used to spend all my pocket-money on pens and notepads. I still do, in a way.
Maggie O'Farrell
49.
As an artist, you reach for the pen that's full of blood.
Paul Monette
50.
Throwaway pens are no good - I never liked them. I've tried them all.
Robert Crumb