Pens Quotes

“Somewhere in the cosmos, he said, along with all the planets inhabited by humanoids, reptiloids, fishoids, walking treeoids and superintelligent shades of the color blue, there was also a planet entirely given over to ballpoint life forms. And it was to this planet that unattended ballpoints would make their way, slipping away quietly through wormholes in space to a world where they knew they could enjoy a uniquely ballpointoid lifestyle, responding to highly ballpoint-oriented stimuli, and generally leading the ballpoint equivalent of the good life.

And as theories go this was all very fine and pleasant until Veet Voojagig suddenly claimed to have found this planet, and to have worked there for a while driving a limousine for a family of cheap green retractables, whereupon he was taken away, locked up, wrote a book and was finally sent into tax exile, which is the usual fate reserved for those who are determined to make fools of themselves in public.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.”
― James Robertson, The Testament of Gideon Mack

“Pen-bereavement is a serious matter.”
― Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

“It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Return of Sherlock Holmes

“When I started writing I wanted the best tools. I skipped right over chisels on rocks, stylus on wet clay plates, quills and fountain pens, even mechanical pencils, and went straight to one of the first popular spin-offs of the aerospace program: the ballpoint pen. They were developed for comber navigators in the war because fountain pens would squirt all over your leather bomber jacket at altitude. (I have a cherished example of the next generation ballpoint, a pressurized Space Pen cleverly designed to work in weightlessness, given to me by Spider Robinson. At least, I cherish it when I can find it. It is also cleverly designed to seek out the lowest point of your desk, roll off, then find the lowest point on the floor, under a heavy piece of furniture. That's because it is cylindrical and lacks a pocket clip to keep it from rolling. In space, I presume it would float out of your pocket and find a forgotten corner of your spacecraft to hide in. NASA spent $3 million developing it. Good job, guys. I'm sure it's around here somewhere.)”
― John Varley, The John Varley Reader

“He chuckled, shaking his head. "Man, you hunters. I break a pencil and there's hell to pay."

"I can see how that's deeply unfair, Chip. Especially if that pencil should try to kill you with it teeth and claws, or launch its brood of a thousand deadly paper clips against you.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Peeps

“They scribble on notepads,
the sound of their pens
scratching the judgemental air.”
― Emma Cameron, Cinnamon Rain

“They took my books
because my message was love.
They took my pen
because my words were love.
Then they took my voice
because my song was love.
Soon they’ll take myself
so nothing remains.
But they don’t know that when I'm gone
my love will stay.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“These reasonings will furnish us with an adequate definition of a true critic: that he is a discoverer and collector of writers’ faults. Which may be farther put beyond dispute by the following demonstration: that whoever will examine the writings in all kinds, wherewith this ancient sect has honoured the world, shall immediately find, from the whole thread and tenor of them, that the ideas of the authors have been altogether conversant and taken up with the faults and blemishes, and oversights, and mistakes of other writers; and let the subject treated on be whatever it will, their imaginations are so entirely possessed and replete with the defects of other pens, that the very quintessence of what is bad does of necessity distil into their own, by which means the whole appears to be nothing else but an abstract of the criticisms themselves have made.”
― Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub and Other Works

“Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“I take pride in using fountain pens. They represent craftsmanship and a love of writing. Biros, on the other hand, represent the throwaway culture of modern society, which exists on microwave ready-meals and instant coffee.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Writer's Year: Fennel's Journal No. 3

“Writing with a biro is the emotional equivalent of giving your loved one a plastic rose on Valentine’s Day.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Writer's Year: Fennel's Journal No. 3

“Your task, in these dreams, is often to pens.”
― Thomas Pynchon

“We write or we are written upon. The whole of our lives is the clumsy attempt to wield the pen with grace.”
― Vincent Louis Carrella

“ماذا تصنع أقلامنا إذا لم تجاهد حتى يعتدل على سنانها ترتيب القيم ؟
ففي حياتنا قيم - هذا صحيح - لكن أسفلها قدرا موضوع بأعلاها وأعلاها أنزلناه حتى بات أسفلها ألم نرفع من شأن النفوذ والجاه والسلطان حتى جعلناه قمة القمم ثم ألم نهبط بقيمة العمل حتى جعلناه أرضا تدوس عليها الأقدام ؟
فماذا تصنع الأقلام إذا هي لم تغير عقولنا ونفوسنا فتتغير هذه الأوضاع”
― زكي نجيب محمود, أفكار ومواقف

“And poets are but photographers, with papers and pens.”
― Seddik Jelouane, The Field of Desire

“Empty hands can't draw by themselves.”
― Anthony T. Hincks