This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it. — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
It became a habit of mine never to leave the house without a pencil in my pocket. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Why are pencils equipped with erasers if not to correct mistakes? — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Said Hamlet to Ophelia, I'll draw a sketch of thee. What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B? — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil. — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor… — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy Share Image
There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot,… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins… — Michael Reagan Copy Share Image
When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start… — Preston Sturges Copy Share Image
The point of departure must always be a vision of the truth. The eye is the route of the soul, and the… — Rosa Bonheur Copy Share Image
When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil.… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I've been really surprised about a lot of the negative comments about artisanal pencil sharpening. Like, it really rubs some people the… — David Rees Copy Share Image
I don't understand the feeling of, the way people speak of writing as though it were, like, some kind of djinn to… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
I believe I saw a woodcock. He had a long bill like putting a fire hydrant into a pencil sharpener, then pasting… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never make it… — Jason Statham Copy Share Image
I know artists whose medium is life itself, and who express the inexpressible without brush, pencil, chisel or guitar. They neither paint… — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Photographers do themselves a disservice by talking too much about the equipment they use. Consequently people don't take them seriously as creators… — Peter Turnley Copy Share Image
I regard photography and film simply as new technical means which painters must absolutely make use of, just as from time out… — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
