Faulkner was the first novelist I read with pen and paper in hand because his technique stunned me.
I’m ashamed to say, I’ve done hideous pen portraits of people I don’t like in my novels. And they’ll say, ‘Oh, that person was hideous,’ and I’m nodding, and I’m thinking, ‘It’s you, you fool!’
You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that’s something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then.
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.
It’s true that I have a strong social sensibility, because – bah, because I raised thre children on my own, and I know the difficulties that can represent. All of that makes it appear that there’s a difference between Jean-Marie Le Pen’s program and mine. But the big ideas are the same.
When I’m sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it’s silence and despair! It’s not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
There are people who’ll dismiss me as ‘just’ a singer. That’s how it is, how it’s always been, but just because I’m not hunched over a piece of paper with a pen in my hand doesn’t mean I’m not putting in the graft.
They say the pen is mightier than the sword and I would like to have the ability to write things down and make them happen. So I guess I would like to be a screenwriter.
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.
I don’t think my husband has any plans to pen his memoirs. There are enough people doing that for him.
Well, I don’t think I’m a chef. I’m just someone that… I found a way of speaking. It was not a pen. It was not a brush. It was food.
As a filmmaker, if you want to write a script, all you need is some paper and a pen or a computer, that’s it.
I used to only like writing with pen and paper, but because I travel so much, I started to lose the paper.
A writer without a pen would be like a duck without water!
I like to write paper mail – nobody does that anymore – with my pen pals.
My thinking process starts with my pen.
You know, Tupac would go into the studio and make like six or seven songs in one day. That’s how he operated. He was real quick with his pen.
I’ve criticized President Bush for his failure to use his veto pen. There’s plenty of blame to go around. The question is how to solve problems. It’s not bailouts. What made America great? Free markets, free enterprise, manufacturing, job creation. That’s how we’re gonna do it, not by enlarging government.
I used to be a calligrapher for weddings and events – that was my side job while I was auditioning. I think handwritten notes are a lost art form. When I booked my first pilot, my dad wrote me a letter that I still have. The idea of someone taking the time to put pen to paper is really special.
I’m not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it’s really that simple.
I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday.
I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.
The pen and the written word hold a great deal of power.
I write by hand and then transfer the text onto the computer. I like the process of actually having a pen in my hand. Things flow more easily for me that way.
Before I could even hold a pen I was singing.
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.
I will surely pen my autobiography.
At the end of the day, if the guy is going to write the girl a letter, whether it’s chicken scratch or scribble or looks like a doctor’s note, if he takes the time to put pen to paper and not type something, there’s something so incredibly romantic and beautiful about that.
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.
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.
I remember when the Bic pen was controversial. They came from France. They were cheap, and when one was out of ink, you threw it away; you didn’t dip it into more ink.
We actually believe Windows 8 is the new era for the PC plus. We believe with a single push of a button you can move seamlessly in and out of both worlds. We believe you can have touch, a pen, a mouse, and a keyboard.
One exercise I always do when I’m getting to know a character is ask her to tell me her secrets. Sit down with a pen and paper, and start with, ‘I never told anybody…’ and go from there, writing in the voice of your character.
Most industrial designers do a bottle or a pen or a computer – things that go right past your eye. When you see a chair, it’s almost like a person. It’s this great big thing in front of you. It hits you more.
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.
I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India.
Over the years, EpiPen’s manufacturer, Mylan, made meaningful modifications to its auto-injector pen. The company maintains some important intellectual property around these revisions. Mylan rightly argues that these features differentiate its device.
We have to be able to go deep in games and save those guys in the pen for down the stretch.
Maybelline’s Precise Ink Pen Liner is by far the easiest liquid eyeliner I’ve ever used. I’m really bad at applying liquid liner, and it glides on so nicely and actually stays on all day.
I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn’t wait to get off the stage.
I don’t use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.
Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil.
I don’t have a pen name, so I’m thinking of getting a doctor’s name. What would you call that, a stethoscope name?
I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.
The only way you’ll have a pen of potential Romeos from your past to choose from is to actually have a past.
Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright’s pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.
Go to any Shinto temple in Japan and you’ll see it: a simple stand from which hang hundreds of wooden postcard-size plaques with a colorful image on one side and, on the other, densely scribbled Japanese characters in black felt-tip pen, pleas to the gods for help or succor.
It is easy to criticize me from behind a pen or a microphone, from someone who never set foot on a football field.
Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.
I always lose every single pencil I ever had. So I can draw with everything. With pencil, with pen.
The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.
Le Pen is a petit bourgeois nationalist.
When it comes down to hardball, we have a veto pen, and I’ve used it in the past, and I expect we will have opportunity to use it in the future. That’s the nature of the business.
I like that original romance of having a pen and a legal pad and going anywhere in the world and being able to write a novel with just those two things.
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.
I want young people to be able to buy into what I design. When I was young, I wanted to buy designer brands even if all I could afford was the cheapest wallet, the cheapest pen, the cheapest T-shirt because I wanted to be a part of it.
My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and then write longhand, into a notebook. I prefer paper and pen because it feels closer to my brain.
Technology must remain a tool. It’s a great tool, but technology is the pen to write the book. It’s not the book. If you have a great pen, maybe you’ll write faster or it will look better, but at the end, you have something to say, or you don’t.
When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will.
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.
