I am hopelessly divided between the dark and the good, the rebel and the saint, the sex maniac and the monk, the poet and the priest, the demagogue and the populist. Pen to paper, I’ve put it all down, every bit from the heart. I’m going out on a limb here, so watch my back.
Heroism is not to be won at the point of a pen.
Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.
When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.
I would quarrel with both parties, and with every individual of each, before I would subjugate my understanding, or prostitute my tongue or pen to either.
I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.
But I am I now; and so many other millions are so irretrievably their own special variety of 'I' that I can hardly bear to think of it. I: how firm a letter; how reassuring the three strokes: one vertical, proud and assertive, and then the two short horizontal lines in quick, smug succession. The pen scratching on the paper…I…I…I…I…I…I.
History belongs to she who holds the pen. . . If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.
My pen shall heal, not hurt.
Maybe there's something new that can document an idea quicker, but pen and paper have always been pretty handy for me.
I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place
Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is written in the Word of God as with an iron pen, and there is no getting rid of it.
When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay. ' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay.
I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.
As an artist, you reach for the pen that's full of blood.
My only weapon is my pen, I'm a songwriter.
No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!
A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army.
The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye.
With whomsoever or wheresoever may rest the present causes of difficulty that apparently exist towards either the completion of the old engine, or the commencement of the new one, we trust they will not ultimately result in this generation's being acquainted with these inventions through the medium of pen, ink and paper merely; and still more do we hope, that for the honour of our country's reputation in the future pages of history, these causes will not lead to the completion of the undertaking by some other nation or government.