Quotes of Pen - somelinesforyou

“ Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage; minds innocent and quiet take that for an hermitage. ”

- Richard Lovelace

“ Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I am a galley slave to pen and ink. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant. ”

- Jonathan Glancey

“ The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword and blood. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. ”

- Ludwig van Beethoven

“ Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. ”

- Horace Mann

“ Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. ”

- Unknown

“ Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the. ”

- Mary McCarthy

“ How can you write if you can't cry? ”

- Ring Lardner

“ A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it. ”

- Thomas Paine

“ Israel is not an aviary. ”

- Abba Eban

“ I lived to write, and wrote to live. ”

- Samuel Rogers

“ If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average. ”

- James Wolcott

“ Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself. ”

- Bob Grinde

“ Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul. ”

- Henry Jacobsen

“ If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug. ”

- Henry Jacobsen

“ Learn to write well, or not to write at all. ”

- John Dryden

“ He that writes to himself, writes to an eternal public. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ I can't write five words but that I change seven. ”

- Dorothy Parker

“ I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am. ”

- Jane Austen

“ All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ I don't know. I have never been to prison. ”

- Dan Marino

“ I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get. ”

- Richard Milhous Nixon

“ If you wish to be a writer; write! ”

- Epictetus

“ We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand. ”

- Cecil Day Lewis

“ Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll Le Corbusier go write four books about it. ”

- Frank Lloyd Wright
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