I'm not letting him write anything. I didn't do anything. I just took his pen.

Give us that grand word "woman" once again, and let's have done with "lady"; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

These deserters were our undoing. I shall have a good deal more to say about them before I finally lay down my pen, and I shall not hesitate to call them by their true name, the name with which they will be for ever branded before all the nations of the world.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.

Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.

The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.

Then I decided I couldn't just crawl in the corner and die, so I started putting pen to paper and wrote some songs. I had no idea what for or who I was going to work with. I tried to find my way and direction.

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.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.