The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.

It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.

The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.