The poets I cling to while I can hold a pen.

He became so languid as scarcely to be able to hold a pen.

She was too unwell to see anybody, to hold a pen, at present.

Anyone who could hold a pen was having a go.

As soon as I could hold a pen, I sent a telegram to you.

We have always, from the time each could hold a pen, delighted in epistolary correspondencies.

As soon as Philippe was able to hold a pen, he wrote the following letters:-

The shaky handwriting belonged to someone too old or infirm to hold a pen properly.

But you say your mother's hands are so lame that she can't hold a pen.

You must die knowing that you are at the mercy of whoever can hold a pen.

How odd it felt to hold a pen!

It's such a confounded handicap for a writer not to be able to hold a pen.

The shivers were so severe I could hardly hold a pen to sign my hospital admission papers.

I am so cut, scratched, and bruised that I can hardly hold a pen in my hand.

When she could hold a pen in her hand, she sent a despairing letter to Madame Valmondé.

Nobody is permitted to hold a pen or to make a note whilst they are being read.