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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.

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.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.

It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.

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.

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

The pen is mightier than the sword.

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.

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.

I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out.

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.

Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil.

It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.

People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.

I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.

The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.