'Will you retire?' 'When they put me in the grave, I want…

I don't want to take anything to the grave. I want to die used up and emptied out. I don't want to carry around…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“From the cradle to the grave, all I want is you.”

— Emma Bryienstein

“Charlie is already outdated, Zheraldin! Sooner or later, instead of white silk to the scene, you will have to wear black to go to…

— Charlie Chaplin

“I want to be buried in those depths in an unmarked grave. I want to get lost in the gray fog of his gaze…

— C.M. Stunich

Retire me to my Milan, where Every third thought shall be my grave.

— William Shakespeare

“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

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

— Adrienne Thompson

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 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

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

— Henry James

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

— Anthony Horowitz

“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

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

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

— Tom Stoppard