The empty page before me now, the pen is in my hand…"…

“A page lay on his desk. His fingers held a pen. With these tools he built a world. Perhaps the world he built lived…

— Max Gladstone

“When you read a manuscript that has been damaged by water, fire, light or just the passing of the years, your eye needs to…

— Diane Setterfield

“I keep a pen in my hand so that I can underline anything that strikes me as particularly interesting or well written—it’s a quirk…

— Kim Wright

She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small 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

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