Jay Dratler Quotes

I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a fountain pen, a Parker fountain pen, and I loved it, and I've never liked writing anything with pencils or ball-points.

I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.

See this pen! I can end your lives with a stroke of this pen!

To hold a pen is to be at war.

A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

I have always been a pencil.

Even the most deft pen is a clumsy tool.

Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.

There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way out.

A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.

An ink bottle, which now seems impossibly quaint, was still thinkable as a symbol in 1970.

I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

I'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really that simple.

It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.

The arm which should have launched the thunderbolt was occupied in guiding the pen.

I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.

I always have a good pen with me.

I only write in blue ink.

I write in pen because it works. A fountain pen is no good for writing in the way I do because I'd have to decide, each time I stopped, how long I was likely to stop for in order to know whether or not to put the cap on. But I never know. So instead, I use a ballpoint - a Montblanc, to be precise - the most comfortably balanced pen I've ever found.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

Technology must remain a tool. It's a great tool, but technology is the pen to write the book. It's not the book. If you have a great pen, maybe you'll write faster or it will look better, but at the end, you have something to say, or you don't.

I use a ball pen because fountain pens are clumsy, and I get ink all over my fingers by the time I finish with it.

Without a pen in my hand I can't think.

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.