Quotes About Expression

Yeah, I used to write short stories at first, but once you work on something, you want to show people. My peers weren't interested in me reading 30-40 pages to them.

People want to peg you as alternative R&B when they hear soul or see the color of your skin. It's comfortable when people see artists of color or artists that come from a different country to put that brand on us. It's just not as linear as that.

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

A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.

I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.

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.

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place.

I always have a good pen with me.

When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.

I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes out that you're actually satisfied with.

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

I think now, whenever I write, there is nothing that will really compare to pen and paper.

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.

I was writing fantasy as soon as I could hold a pen.

I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India.

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.

I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.

I've always been able to write. I've always been able to put a good essay in or say whatever I wanted to say through the pen. That was a gift of mine. I feel like it was what I was meant to do.

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

I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I'm yet to pen a script, but it is something that I've been telling myself I want to do.

Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.

I'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really that simple.

Before I could even hold a pen I was singing.