Pen
A feather.
A wing.
An instrument used for writing with ink, formerly made of a reed, or of the quill of a goose or other bird, but now also of other materials, as of steel, gold, etc. Also, originally, a stylus or other instrument for scratching or graving.
Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen.
The internal shell of a squid.
A female swan.
To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to compose; as, to pen a sonnet.
To shut up, as in a pen or cage; to confine in a small inclosure or narrow space; to coop up, or shut in; to inclose.
A small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep or for pigs.
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Pen Quotations
People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
Walt Disney
To hold a pen is to be at war.
Voltaire
I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.
Mitch Hedberg
Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen.
Mitch Hedberg
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
Jane Austen
Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
Ambrose Bierce
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
Edward Gibbon
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
James Joyce
I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.
Gustave Flaubert
In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
Pearl S. Buck
A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia.
Mercy Otis Warren
You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
Terry Pratchett
I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.
Shelby Foote
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
Max Beerbohm
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
What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.
John Ciardi
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
A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.
Michael Ondaatje
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
John Greenleaf Whittier
You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
Paul Simon
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Horace
I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Helmut Newton
Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.
Marlo Thomas
I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
John Millington Synge
To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
Quentin Tarantino
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
Petrarch
I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.
Mary Lou Retton
The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Pen Translations
pen in Afrikaans is veer
pen in Dutch is hok
pen in French is plume
pen in Italian is penna stilografica, penna
pen in Latin is claustrum
pen in Norwegian is penn
pen in Portuguese is pena
pen in Spanish is pluma
pen in Swedish is penna
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