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
Heroism is not to be won at the point of a pen.
I swear I have at least one good song idea a day. But if I don't get pen to paper in ten seconds, it's gone forever.
My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I'd sketch shoes and shoes and shoes.
But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever and ever, Amen.
They favour learning whose actions are worthy of a learned pen.
Both light and shadow are the dance of Love. Love has no cause, it is the astrolabe of God's secrets. Lover and loving are inseparable and timeless. Although I may try to describe love, when I experience it, I am speechless. Although I may try to write about love, I am rendered helpless. My pen breaks, and the paper slips away at the ineffable place where lover loving and loved are one. Every moment is made glorious by the light of Love.
I'm very primitive; I write with a pen.
Over the years, Charlie [Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman] and I have observed many accounting-based frauds of staggering size. Few of the perpetrators have been punished; many have not even been censured. It has been far safer to steal large sums with pen than small sums with a gun.
A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
The Bible is God's declaratory revelation to man containing the great truths about God, about man, about history, about salvation, and about prophecy that God wanted us to know. The Bible could be trusted just as much as if God had taken the pen and written the words Himself.
I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world. So far as I know nothing of the kind has ever been attempted before in fiction.
My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.
I remember sitting down with the Rockets and saying, 'Yeah. I'm going to retire. ' They said, 'Well, we'll give you $9 million. ' And I said, 'You got a pen on you?'
Thoth, Hermes, the stylus, the palette, the pen, the quill endure, though our books are a floor of smouldering ash under our feet.