“With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.”

“I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.”

“I ’ll make thee glorious by my pen,
And famous by my sword.”

“I fought till my sword did cleave to my hand; and then they were joined together as if a sword grew out of my arm; and when the blood ran through my fingers, then I fought with most courage.”

“Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.”

“Your bombs and pens like swords, held high, up to my throat. You have made the cost of blood, as cheap as ink and all I think.”

“My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.”

“"The pen is mightier than the sword," you say. Get out your pens and prepare to have your logic tested by steel.”

“It is better to have a sword in the hand and love in the heart and not the other way around”

“I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.”