I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.
A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.
An animator is an actor with a pencil.
Type as quickly as you can and always carry a pencil.
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.
History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.
We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.
A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.
I was playing with pencils while the other girls were playing with dolls.
Let us pick up our books and pencils. They are our most powerful weapon.
Success is a worn down pencil.
Write . . . write . . . pencil . . . paper.
The pencil is mightier than the pen.
This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.
#3 pencils and quadrille pads.
I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing.
I like 'pencil-necked weasel'. It has 'pencil' in it. Pencils are good things. You can draw or write things with pencils. I think it's what you call someone when you're worried that using a long word like 'intellectual' may have too many syllables. It's not something that people who have serious, important things to say call other people.
If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?
So, did you stab Edward Cullen with a pencil or what? I've never seen him act like that.
When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The mail-order stationery people supply every need from royal blue Quink to a dazzling variety of portable hard drives.
'Lizzie McGuire' was my big thing when I was younger. I did buy some pencils and back-to-school stuff of hers because she was on it. I loved her.
I belong to this notebook and this pencil.
He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.
Somebody was using the pencil.
