Tony Kushner Quotes

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

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

I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.

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

I only write in blue ink.

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.

I always have a good pen with me.

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.

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

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

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

To hold a pen is to be at war.

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

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

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

I love pens, especially when writing on good-quality paper. But I don't have a favorite - I try all kinds in all colors. Like most folks, I misplace them a lot, so I don't use anything too fancy.

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.

Even the most deft pen is a clumsy tool.

First, consider the pen you write with. It should be a fast-writing pen because your thoughts are always much faster than your hand. You don't want to slow up your hand even more with a slow pen. A ballpoint, a pencil, a felt tip, for sure, are slow. Go to a stationery store and see what feels good to you. Try out different kinds. Don't get too fancy and expensive. I mostly use a cheap Sheaffer fountain pen, about $1.95.... You want to be able to feel the connection and texture of the pen on paper.

I use a quill pen dipped in India ink. I also like Faber-Castell brush pens and Pigma Micron pens. And I work on Duo-Shade board.

There's something special about writing by hand, writing with a fountain pen, and there's something special about writing into a book, to take a blank book and turn it into an actual book.

I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India.