marked Never write with pencil, m’ija. It is for those who…

It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps…

— Julia Alvarez

I could write about a pencil if I wanted to. You just take it back deep enough, all the way back to the tree…

— Gza

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another…

— Samuel Beckett

I often write in pencil on paper and then type up later. It's much quicker than using a keyboard.

— Catherine Fisher

“If you’re going to write about love, write it in pencil.”

— Han Yujoo

Write . . . write . . . pencil . . . paper.

— Heinrich Heine

I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.

— Ian Mckellen

“…and on occasion I like to write in pencil, because I need to know that I can erase the words, even if I never…

— Bruce Black

My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter…

— Donald Knuth

“pencil the exact middle of the head’s height. Place a horizontal line there; this should be located below the eyebrows' line.  ”

— Vladimir London

With pencil there is a tendency to be timid, either using very faint lines or erasing bad lines... Line sketching tends to emphasize the…

— Paul Laseau

Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I…

— Stacy Schiff

But I had never drawn on a tablet before. I've been doing pencil and paper and film for almost 20 years. I wanted to…

— Don Hertzfeldt

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

— Carl Sandburg

I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil,

— William Faulkner