Pen Quotes

The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.

~ Alison Gopnik

I want young people to be able to buy into what I design. When I was young, I wanted to buy designer brands even if all I could afford was the cheapest wallet, the cheapest pen, the cheapest T-shirt because I wanted to be a part of it.

~ Nicola Formichetti

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.

~ Rupert Friend

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

~ John Greenleaf Whittier

My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.

~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.

~ Maya Angelou

When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.

~ Erica Jong

I like that original romance of having a pen and a legal pad and going anywhere in the world and being able to write a novel with just those two things.

~ Alice Mcdermott

I chose my pen name when I was ten, because I knew even then that my legal name would be more trouble than it was worth.

~ Marie Brennan