J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.

I'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really that simple.

A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

I have always been a pencil.

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.

The arm which should have launched the thunderbolt was occupied in guiding the pen.

See this pen! I can end your lives with a stroke of this pen!

I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.

I always have a good pen with me.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.

I give thanks for the fact that I can get this stick with a bit of steel nib on the end, dip it in some black carbon stuff, and draw on paper. Now, people did it the same way 2,000 years ago. And there's something lovely about that play, and making mud pies and a mess. That's a lovely privilege.

I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.

The keyboard is my journal.

Technology must remain a tool. It's a great tool, but technology is the pen to write the book. It's not the book. If you have a great pen, maybe you'll write faster or it will look better, but at the end, you have something to say, or you don't.

Ink is the transcript of thought.

Without a pen in my hand I can't think.

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.

There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way out.

I have a Sharpie. I love Sharpies. You know what they say on them? Not for letter writing. That sucks. Now I have to communicate with my dad using numbers.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.

A pen connects you to the paper. It definitely matters.

You're never gonna outwrite the movement of the white clouds and the blue sky. You're never going to. There are times when I try to write beautifully, but I don't know if I'm trying to exorcise my own demons. If I am, there are other ones lurking beneath, because they keep coming out. Maybe little by little I'm fumigating.