Shira Goodman Quotes

People buy pads all the time, because they want to write stuff down. We're never going to get away from paper, ever. People like writing; that's why more people are writing more real thank-you notes now - not just to stand out, but because there's something about pen to paper, about holding something cool in your hands.

Near my desk, I keep a large plastic carton filled with fresh notebooks and stationery of various kinds, sizes, and qualities.

I think now, whenever I write, there is nothing that will really compare to pen and paper.

I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections.

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 have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a new notebook. I have dozens of them just sitting around.

Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.

You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear.

I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.

I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase.

I used to write exclusively with one particular Montblanc fountain pen, although lately I have had to use a roller-tip fountain pen, because I find it harder and harder to control the fine muscles of my right hand during prolonged periods of work. I buy boxes of Deluxe Uni-ball pens, use them until they start to drag, and then change.

I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago.

I always have a good pen with me.

I only write in blue ink.

There's no need to sharpen my pencils anymore. They're sharp enough. Even the dull ones will make a mark.

Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.

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

Write . . . write . . . pencil . . . paper.

I thought if I really wanted to be serious about writing, I should make my own desk.

I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.

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 a fan of parchment and wood pulp.

I hate typing but I love to write manually.

I got a pouch at Chelsea Market in NYC that says, 'Art Is More Important Than Math.' It has pencils and a highlighter. I always have to sign something or highlight a script.