I'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really…

After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.

— Tom Stoppard

Some people may not like me when they have a pen in their hand, so they write what they want. That's fine. I can't…

— Darrelle Revis

A president with a pen in their hand is a very powerful person.

— Fernando Haddad

“Hand could never really grasp it.”

— Robert Aickman

“How to Obtain Power of Attorney. This looks interesting.” Was that sarcasm? A slim pamphlet with a sad stock photo of someone holding an…

— Eva Woods

You know I'm never happy. I'm not happy, unless I'm miserable.

— Tom Thibodeau

With this pen I take in hand my selves and with these dead disciples I will grapple. Though rain curses the window let the…

— Anne Sexton

Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating…

— Matthew Arnold

“He sits with the pen in his hand, holding himself back from a descent into representations that have no place in the world, on…

— J.M. Coetzee

Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the…

— Glen Hansard

“The empty page before me now, the pen is in my hand…" ~Kansas”

— Jodie Andrefski

But when I took up my pen, my hand made big, jerky letters like those of a child, and the lines sloped down the…

— Sylvia Plath

She had an unequalled gift, usually pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into opportunities.

— Henry James

Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to…

— Neil Simon

“With a pen in my hand I am fearless.”

— Adrienne Thompson