To call that writing, madam, is an insult to quills and…

Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.

— George Etherege

I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade... the rivers…

— Marquis de Sade

Madame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside she is covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut feeling is…

— Muriel Barbery

I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.

— Anonymous

The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other…

— Walter Murch

GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of…

— Ambrose Bierce

But the way to wealth through the quill seems long.

— Elizabeth Charles

I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like stars start…

— William Shakespeare

You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then…

— Ellen DeGeneres

Moon, worn thin to the width of a quill,/ In the dawn clouds flying,/ How good to go, light into light, and still/ Giving…

— Sara Teasdale

Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

— Leonardo da Vinci

He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose.

— Fred Allen

Thoth, Hermes, the stylus, the palette, the pen, the quill endure, though our books are a floor of smouldering ash under our feet.

— Hilda Doolittle

When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when…

— Hilary Mantel

We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.

— Helen Fisher