My books flow. People say they pick them up and they can't…

I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.

— Oscar Niemeyer

“I can read books. I can flow like a river. I can absorb everything that comes my way, good or bad.”

— Abhaidev

Wine books flow from printing presses like water from broken spigots.

— Howard G Goldberg

Pick up my pen and start to write

— Faithless

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

— Martin Luther

When you wake up, instead of checking emails on your phone, or counting your retweets, pick up a pen and scratch a few sentences…

— Kevin Barry

“I pick up a pen and start to unscrew the whole thing, pull out the skinny little tube of blue ink. It would be…

— Jodi Picoult

Do not pick up the pen unless you understand how heavy it is, and how long you may carry it for.

— Jason Ellis

What happens to us all, I think, when we pick up a pen, is that we just become snobs.

— Glen Hansard

“People who are prone to sadness are more likely to pick up a pen.”

— Lang Leav

For a perfect holiday I need my iPhone and my writing tools. I write all my books by hand so black felt pens and…

— Jackie Collins

A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I was taking all prints and I brought them to the Magnum meetings, trying the old Josef Koudelka trick: Give them to photographers, who…

— Peter van Agtmael

For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing these things…

— William Gibson

I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our…

— Brian Reade