A frequent exchange of text messages is not a relationship. It's not even a pen-pal.
When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.
I could write from anywhere, including the moon, provided I had a pencil and not a pen.
I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter if I wrote them or not.
When you die, others who think they know you, will concoct things about you... Better pick up a pen and write it yourself, for you know yourself best.
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue [is] the pen of a ready writer.
The only way you'll have a pen of potential Romeos from your past to choose from is to actually have a past.
I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.
When people starts to enjoy a writer's pen, he becomes a legend even if his stories are neither long nor publicly surrounded by expectations.
After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.
How many great gems were lost to thought and not put down to pen. You can but think of just a few and then they're lost again.
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.
I always have a Sharpie, because usually when someone asks me for an autograph, they don't have a pen. I carry one in my purse, as well as in my tennis bag.
The quote above about patience is NOT MERYL STREEP's-- this quote is actually from the pen of Portuguese self-help author/life coach José Micard Teixeira. PLEASE REMOVE IT!!!!!
Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.
I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday.
Novels by British writers are among my favorites because our family has enjoyed travel in England and because they are written with an economy of words as if they were written with a pen instead of a computer. Penelope Fitzgerald is a favorite.
