Quote by Douglas Coupland

“I found that sometimes it was a relief to do something unattractive in private, to confirm that I’m deeply flawed when so many others…

— Alissa Nutting

“... your writer of intensities must have very black ink, and a very big pen, with a very blunt nib.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Nothing is as endearing as a handwritten letter scribed by the person who holds your heart spellbound.”

— Alfa H

“Even now, after a lifetime of human companionship, I am hard-pressed to understand fully mankind's fascination with those little marks that they so carefully…

— Sally Smith O'Rourke

“Sharpie—the preferred writing utensil on orbit since you can hold it any which way and it still works.”

— Chris Hadfield

“I am grateful to some pens that are as sharp as a sword edge; they taught me how to go on calmly and smiling.”

— Salman Al Odah

“Writing makes me hard, like a fisherman, and brown from the heat. Tossing out and reeling in is a job for visionaries and those…

— Chila Woychik

“What lofty subject are you addressing in Tuesday’s column?” she asked. “Pencils! I’ve just discovered a source for the fat yellow pencils with thick…

— Lilian Jackson Braun

“Few things have such sharp edges as the careless words of a boy.”

— Robin Hobb

“His features were smudged and indistinct, as though a thumb had smeared itself across an ink drawing of a face. His”

— John Connolly

“ Marginalia Sometimes the notes are ferocious, skirmishes against the author raging along the borders of every page in tiny black script. If I…

— Billy Collins

“The scribe was a strict teacher and he did not accept anything less than perfect... Like a mother sensing the baby quickening within her,…

— Theresa Breslin