30 Best Quotes About Pens And Paper

30 Best Quotes About Pens And Paper

A few famous and inspiring quotes about pens and writing implements from well known and not so well-known people. Inspirational quotes to motivate, inspire or just think upon while using pens. Feel free to save the best quote for your office desk.

With all written about pens if I have missed anything significant or a quotation just add it to this collection below.

Pen Quotes

“If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.”

Martin Luther

“’I can always live by my pen.”

Jane Austen – author

To hold a pen is to be at war

“To hold a pen is to be at war.”

Voltaire

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

Paul Simon

One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world

“One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world.”

Malala Yousafzai

“Hold your pen and spare your voice.”

Dorothy Parker

Fountain Pen Quotes

“None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.”

Mark Twain

“Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy.”

Henri Frederic Amiel

I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why

“I write everything with fountain pens. I don’t know why. I’ve done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a fountain pen, a Parker fountain pen, and I loved it, and I’ve never liked writing anything with pencils or ball-points.”

Tony Kushner

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

Maya Angelou

A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen

“A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.”

J. R. R. Tolkien

“The pen is the lever that moves the world.”

Thomas De Witt Talmage

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these It might have been

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been’

John Greenleaf Whittier

“It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated.”

Angelina Grimke

A pen transmits the voice of the soul

“A pen transmits the voice of the soul.”

Fennel Hudson

“There is more done with pens than with swords.”

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Pen Quote

“The hand that holds the pen writes history.”

Film “Colette”

“The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.”

Terry Pratchett – author

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword

“Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.”

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Pen And Paper Quotes

“Everyday of your life is a page of your history.”

Robin Roark
Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen

“Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.”

Maimonides
I wear my Pen as others do their Sword.

“I wear my Pen as others do their Sword.”

John Oldham
There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both,

“There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.”

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

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

William Makepeace Thackeray
You can make anything by writing

“You can make anything by writing.”

C.S. Lewis
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

Virginia Woolf
Quotes About Pens And Paper

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”

E. L. Doctorow
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”

Toni Morrison
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”

William Wordsworth
The scariest moment is always just before you start.

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”

Stephen King

These inspirational pen quotes also have other uses besides those first mentioned. A marvellous idea for an engraving or to include with a gift pens.

These old sayings a hand-picked selection of what I thought the best. There are many more I may have missed. If your favourite pen writings are not here, please leave it below.

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