Pencil Quotes

366 Pencil quotes by 301 unique authors

We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment. — David Levithan
You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil. — Ernest Hemingway
A child her wayward pencil drew On margins of her book; Garlands of flower, dancing elves, Bud, butterfly, and brook, Lessons undone, and plum forgot,… — Louisa May Alcott
I scan the room. Catherine is writing quickly, her light brown hair falling over her face. She is left-handed, and because she writes in pencil… — Sara Gruen
The pencil is mightier than the pen. — Robert M. Pirsig
You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What… — Douglas Adams
She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a… — Gregory Maguire
Sticklers never read a book without a pencil at hand, to correct the typographical errors. In short, we are unattractive know-all obsessives who get things… — Lynne Truss
How to Draw a Picture (XII) Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is… — Stephen King
A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and… — Aphra Behn
To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical… — Adrienne Rich
In our travels, we have come across many equations--math for understanding the universe, for making music, for mapping stars, and also for tipping, which is… — Libba Bray
Said Hamlet to Ophelia, I'll draw a sketch of thee. What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B? — Spike Milligan
How happily, said Austerlitz, have I sat over a book in the deepening twilight until I could no longer make out the words and my… — W G Sebald
So, did you stab Edward Cullen with a pencil or what? I've never seen him act like that. — Stephenie Meyer
One is never alone with a book nearby, don't you agree? Every page reminds us of a day that has passed and makes us relive… — Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte
I got a statistic for you right now. Grab your pencil, Doug. There are five billion trees in the world. I looked it up. Under… — Ray Bradbury
The fracture of pencil still useful, but the fracture of soul, we couldn't use it, Mister. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer
The kitchen was bright, cheerful yellow, the walls decorated with framed chalk and pencil sketches Simon and Rebecca had done in grade school. Rebecca had… — Cassandra Clare
She gestured toward his very fine chest with her pencil. “On the off chance I find out after we’re married that your declaration of abiding… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook, that the sketch… — Virginia Woolf
There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
She was a thin woman in a mustard-yellow suit, with a yellowish complexion, short-cropped rusty red hair, and a stiff posture. She reminded Reynie of… — Trenton Lee Stewart
Did I tell you I finally found the perfect page-cutter? It's a pearl-handled fruit knife. My mother left me a dozen of them, I keep… — Helene Hanff
First, consider the pen you write with. It should be a fast-writing pen because your thoughts are always much faster than your hand. You don't… — Natalie Goldberg

Who Wrote These Pencil Quotes

301 authors contributed a total of 366 Pencil Quotes, led by these top contributors: