I am proud to wear the name Le Pen.
Because I don't produce insulin, I have to put insulin into my body, which means that I have a pen with a needle on it. I have it with me. You have to stick it in your thigh, or your arm - a lot of different spots you can put it.
I'm not letting him write anything. I didn't do anything. I just took his pen.
I believe Jean-Marie Le Pen is a man of his word, and he will not go back on his words.
Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.
When I read a book I liked, I would get a pen and one of my father's legal pads and rewrite it from memory as if I had thought of it myself. It was a clear sign that I wanted to be involved in writing, even if it was just pretend at that point.
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done.
I chose my pen name when I was ten, because I knew even then that my legal name would be more trouble than it was worth.
Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.
The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
When I was as little as four years old, my mom would give me a pen and paper and tell me to write a story to keep me busy.
Sheep may not be brilliant, but they know that sheep in pen is stage number one of lamb chops.
I'm glad I wrote them when I did because I think if I were to write my first novel now, it would be a different book, and it may not be the book that everybody wants to read. But if I were given a red pen now, and I went back... I'd take that thing apart.
My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.
I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.
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.
Editing is such a voyeuristic treat for me. I land on a theme and ask authors to pen works that fit the topic.
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.
I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
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.
Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.
When Reg died and we first looked into getting a new dog, I was adamant we should pick up a mongrel from an animal-rescue shelter. It's not only that they're usually healthier and have better temperaments, they also fit with my world view - I prefer a ballpoint to a fountain pen, a barber to a hair stylist, and camping over glamping.
All anyone agreed on was that Kurban Said was the pen name of a writer who had probably come from Baku, an oil city in the Caucasus, and that he was either a nationalist poet who was killed in the Gulags or the dilettante son of an oil millionaire or a Viennese cafe-society writer who died after stabbing himself in the foot.
A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there.
People say that the most expensive piece of medical equipment is the doctor's pen. It's not that we make all the money. It's that we order all the money.
The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.
Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.
The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
When I started writing, I didn't have the common sense to use a pseudonym, so I write under my own name. If I did have a pen name, though, it would be something very historical - something that sounds very sort of Regency... Sophia something.
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.
