Pencil Quotes

I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.

It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name.

I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.

We have defined these characters - people always expect to see me in a pencil skirt. When they see me out of one - much like when they see Jon Hamm's hair when it isn't slick - they say, 'Wait a minute, you're all 2010!'

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.

When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.

It was pure guesswork on my part back in 1979 as to whether I would have the stamina to write, pencil, ink, letter, tone, and fill the back of a monthly comic book for 26 years.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.

I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.

Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway.

Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red pencil, trying to reach a consensus on every word.

College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.

The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone.

I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calendars, I had no art paper, so I took whatever else I could.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi.

A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.

Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory!