| "To hold a pen is to be at war." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "The pen is the tongue of the mind." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "Hence it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword." »Robert Burton |
| "I am a galley slave to pen and ink." »Honore' de Balzac |
| "I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please." »Mother Jones |
| "The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been." »John Greenleaf Whittier |
| "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these 'It might have been'" »John Greenleaf Whittier |
| "If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away." »Victor Hugo |
| "Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword." »Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
| "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 |
| "One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of ones flesh in the ink-pot each time one dips one's pen." »Leo Tolstoy |
| "But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step-dame Studys blows...Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite,Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write." »Sir Philip Sidney |
| "'At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,' said the gentleman, taking up a pen, 'it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. ... We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.'" »Charles Dickens |
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