Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is…

I remember the days of sitting at book signings, playing with my pen when no one would come, and still I even then thought…

— Harlan Coben

What we've learned is there's no right way to write a song.

— Susan Tedeschi

That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.

— RaeLynn

The best way to write a song is to think of something else and then the song kind of creeps in.

— John Prine

There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.

— 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

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

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

— Tom Stoppard

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

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