When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?

“One word is all it takes to erase the word “Stranger” -hello”

— Emily Curtis

Erase the word "failure" from your vocabulary. No case is ever truly closed, and no challenge is ever over.

— Mary Lou Retton

“NOTHING APPLIES, I print with the magnetized IBM pencil. What does apply, they ask later, as if the word "nothing" were ambiguous, open to…

— Joan Didion

...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase…

— Dorothy Parker

With pencil, you can always erase.

— Sue Monk Kidd

Life is like pencil without rubber we can write whatever we want but we can't erase what we need.

— Aamir Sheikh

“A poetess is not as selfish as you assume. After months of agonising over her marriage of words—the bride— and spaces—the groom, she knows…

— Kamand Kojouri

Just get out your magic pencil and erase the cloudy skies, and just draw a picture of me saying, I apologize.

— Bill Anderson

Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines.

— E. J. Hughes

Said Hamlet to Ophelia, I'll draw a sketch of thee. What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B?

— Spike Milligan

I put my pencil upon the paper, doubtfully, and drew little lines, considering my theme. But I would not long hesitate in this manner,…

— Hilaire Belloc

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

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