Quill Quotes

24 quotes by 21 authors

With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of a courtesan; it… — Pietro Aretino
Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a… — Mo Rocca
I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom. — Clifton Webb
All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me.... If I must not, because of my sex, have this freedom...… — Aphra Behn
I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill. — Christopher Plummer
He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose. — Fred Allen
The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive… — A J P Taylor
Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand! — Herman Melville
I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much. — Oscar Nunez
The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other hand,… — Walter Murch
The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour… — Lincoln Child
Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill. — John Florio
Moon, worn thin to the width of a quill,/ In the dawn clouds flying,/ How good to go, light into light, and still/ Giving light,… — Sara Teasdale
When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you… — Hilary Mantel
For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which… — Virginia Woolf
While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not… — Margaret Atwood
Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf. — Orson Scott Card
As Harry and Ron rounded the clump of trees behind which Harry had first heard the dragons roar, a witch leapt out from behind them.… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as he looked for something that would help him write his essay, â€œWitch… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
How dâ€™you spell â€˜belligerentâ€™?â€ said Ron, shaking his quill very hard while staring at his parchment. â€œIt canâ€™t be B â€” U â€” M â€”â€… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

Who Wrote These Quill Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 24 Quill Quotes as follows: