Martha Plumb's heart broke, and she feared the worst as she set pen to paper to inquire about her husband.
Getting rid of cursive seems to imply that one day no one will need to set pen to paper.
He opens with "Absence," which used to be as good a reason as any to set pen to paper.
Since the day he first set pen to paper, Mailer has viewed his contemporaries "the way an athlete looks at rival athletes," but the competition is just as often with himself.
It may be because they knew that another film about the real heretical "bible" suppressed by the church for the past 1,000 years - a film begun before Dan Brown even set pen to paper -was finally about to be shown.
Compiled from material in Albert Bigelow Paine and Bernard De Voto's earlier Twain autobiographies, with nearly 40,000 additional words of Twain's unpublished anecdotes and observations, the autobiography, Orville Prescott wrote in The New York Times, was "a wonderful book, a marvelous self-portrait of one of the most amusing and interesting Americans who ever set pen to paper".
"I had given thought to 'Guardians 2' before I even set pen to paper on 'Guardians 1,'" Gunn said.
The makers of American political satires always claim to have devoted close personal study to the workings of Congress and the White House before they set pen to paper, but it's the Brits who really base their work on real life.
Setting pen to paper at Bateman's, his home in Burwash, Sussex, Kipling said: "Dear old man.
Mr. Lipsky (a courtly gent, who believes that the use of courtesy titles is a matter of elementary courtesy) telephoned me for a chat before setting pen to paper.
From overlooking distances to rights to light, every aspect of a new building has been quantified and calibrated before the designer even sets pen to paper.
