Chart Quote by Herman Melville

“Thus he always wrote using a pencil with a long, sharp but soft lead, so he couldn't here his words as they formed on…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“The lines are careful. They reveal he pays attention. People don’t think he does, because he daydreams and skips class and neglects his homework,…

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— John Connolly

“The Secret of Drawing consists of just two things: 1) Making lines on paper; and 2) Choosing where they go.”

— James A. Owen

“His thoughts were hemmed in. One can only draw curved lines on the terrestrial sphere which, as they extend, forever meet with themselves. At…

— Raymond Queneau

“There were many markings in pencil, and those strange symbols again, dashed off, it seemed, revealing their opacity what a complex and abstract thing…

— Anne Rice

“His face was all sharp angles, thin and pointed, like something Pythagoras had doodled on the corner of his scroll before getting on with…

— Philip Kerr

He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.

— John Green

“For all we know, the handwriting might have been on the wall all along. The question is: was the ink invisible?”

— Amos Tversky

“I painted the lines and colours that affected my inner eye. I painted from memory without adding anything, without the details that I no…

— Ulrich Bischoff

“So when the faithful pencil has design'd Some bright idea of the master's mind, Where a new world leaps out at his command, And…

— Alexander Pope

“His body was worn and weathered, his skin scratched with lines mapping the miles of his life.”

— Laura Hillenbrand