Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.

Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.

I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without.

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to write a letter from wherever we landed.

Under Obama, our federal tax dollars can now be used to fund abortion all over the world. With the stroke of a pen, abortion essentially became a U.S. foreign export.

If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen.

A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.