“Hold your pen and spare your voice.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
“To hold a pen is to be at war.”
— Voltaire
Qui plume a, guerre a.
Letter to Jeanne-Grâce Bosc du Bouchet, comtesse d'Argental (4 October 1748)
This remark also appears in a letter to Marie-Louise Denis (22 May 1752): To hold a pen is to be at war. This world is one vast temple consecrated to discord [Qui plume a, guerre a. Ce monde est un vaste temple dédié à la discorde].
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