She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of…

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

— Henry James

Big mistakes are often hidden behind small mistakes, due to which small ones are often visible.

— Sanji-Paul Arvind

It is not important NOT to make mistakes, but the mistakes to be small

— Carlos Slim

“She looked around the table and saw each of them as they looked that night...All of them in their last hours of making mistakes…

— Carol Anshaw

Make sure that you are in a situation where the constant mistakes are small and can be used for something.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I'm human, so I make mistakes. Some small, some big. But they don't define me, nor do opinions. I'm perfectly imperfect, & if you…

— Nishan Panwar

“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

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