Terry Pratchett
Author
"I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro."
Pens quotes
Pens
68 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Novelist, Scholar
"A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen."
Angelina Grimke
Activist
"It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated."
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"Pen, wax and parchment govern the world."
Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away."
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"The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women."
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"The pen is mightier than the sword ... if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp."
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"Hold your pen and spare your voice."
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"Life in the pen ain't for me 'cos I'd rather die."
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"Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again."
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"There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen."
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"Sadly, there are more wild horses in holding pens than in the wild."
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"I can always live by my pen."
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"No one is perfect, except for Penélope Cruz."
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"No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something."
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"My only weapon is my pen, I'm a songwriter."
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"Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants."
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"I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen."
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"What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?"
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"I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up."
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"A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke."
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"I'm very primitive; I write with a pen."
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"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."
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"When you are telling your story, hold your own ink pen. Don't let anybody else tell your story."
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"When someone takes away your pens you realise quite how important education is."
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