Top 1134 Pen Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct.

The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I'm yet to pen a script, but it is something that I've been telling myself I want to do.

I don't think my husband has any plans to pen his memoirs. There are enough people doing that for him.

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

Marine Le Pen may want me dead, that's possible, but she must not count on my co-operation

I jack, I rob, I sin. Aw man, I'm Jackie Robinson 'Cept when I run base, I dodge the pen

I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.

Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.

Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot

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.

I want to help with Muslim integration. If you follow the line of Marine Le Pen, you create a civil war.

She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Rejection process is not fun. It's the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward.

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

Faulkner was the first novelist I read with pen and paper in hand because his technique stunned me.

If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.

I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and pick up your pen and finish writing when you put down your pen again; a writer is always writing, seeing everything through a thin mist of words, fitting swift little descriptions to everything he sees, always noticing. Just as I believe that a painter cannot sit down to his morning coffee without noticing what color it is, so a writer cannot see an odd little gesture without putting a verbal description to it, and ought never to let a moment go by undescribed.

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.

I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

If you want a transcript of tonight's program, get a pen and write down everything I said.

It is easy to criticize me from behind a pen or a microphone, from someone who never set foot on a football field.

It's an imaginative thing we do; it's about immersing oneself in one's imagination. If you're a novelist, you do it with pen and paper. We do it with our bodies.

People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen.

I have always loved writing and I used to pen down my thoughts, little stories and poems growing up.

Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.

Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a pencil or pen and can write it down.

One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.

I do not know if you bridle your pen, but when my pencil moves, it is necesary to let it go, or - crash!... nothing more.

Well, I don't think I'm a chef. I'm just someone that... I found a way of speaking. It was not a pen. It was not a brush. It was food.

It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

It's quite humbling when you see the list of writers who have been president of PEN and you know some of the things they've done.

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

I don't have many superstitions, just dumb things I don't talk about. I will not sign an autograph with a green pen.

For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen... together they are more than the sum of their parts.

We've never been very good at servicing fans. I'm here to concentrate on music, not to be a pen pal to people who write to me.

I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.

We have so much inspiration. It's everywhere... So I always have a pen with me and a laptop, and I write everything down.

We have so much access to video and audio recording equipment that it's kind of the new pen and paper.

Putting pen to paper lights more fire than matches ever will

Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance.

I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.

Editing is such a voyeuristic treat for me. I land on a theme and ask authors to pen works that fit the topic.

I'm a total technophobe. What is wrong with paper and pen? I was delighted when I learnt the word 'Luddite,' as I thought it described me perfectly.

It's small things like that - a pen, or being able to communicate freely - that we should always cherish.

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.

The extremist, isolationist policies of Jean-Marie Le Pen have been rejected and crushed

I like to figure out what the production opportunities are for the things I'm interested in before I put pen to paper.

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.

I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.

Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches.