Digging Quote by Seamus Heaney

“Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.”

— Seamus Heaney

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

— Spalding Gray

My pen is the barrel of a gun. Remind me which side you should be on.

— Peyton Sawyer

“The caress of each word becoming one with the page. Twisting beneath the touch of the pen, forming a trail of permanent kisses, until…

— N'Zuri Za Austin

I'm not asking a poem to carry a lot of rocks in its pockets. Just being an ordinary observer and liver and feeler and…

— Sharon Olds

The pen is in your hands, the rest is still unwritten.

— Natasha Bedingfield

“I clench my teeth and push forward. My pen grinds out the first and eldest word: an Ink-borne lance of black fire, scratched into…

— S.G. Night

“Behold the power of my pen”

— Susan Rebecca White

“In the act of writing he experiences, today, an exceptional sensual pleasure -- in the feel of the pen, snug in the crook of…

— J.M. Coetzee

“Writing. Opening a vein in your wrist with a spoon.”

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

One finger and a fist, I'll crawl my way out of any situation.

— Anonymous

“You don´t have to let it linger Within the palm of your hand, The tip's already in your finger: All beginning comes to an…

— Ana Claudia Antunes