Pastoral Resources

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.

The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.

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

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.

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

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.

In this manner, I continued with Satan for ten days. His answer and blasphemy were too shocking to pen; till I was worn out with rage and malice against him, I could not bear myself.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

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.

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