A president with a pen in their hand is a very powerful…

It's quite humbling when you see the list of writers who have been president of PEN and you know some of the things they've…

— John Ralston Saul

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

— Tom Stoppard

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

— Anthony Horowitz

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

Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.

— David Mitchell

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

— Henry James

I hear better with a pen in my hand.

— Alan Judd

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

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

— Adrienne Thompson

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

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

“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

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