Writing Instrument Quotes

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

All I'm about is just the pen.

I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.

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

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

Let me tell you what I look like: pale face, long hair, and a tiny start of a paunch. In addition, an awkward gait, and a cigar in the mouth and a pen in pocket or hand.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

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.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem "Digging

I sometimes mistake my typewriter for my teeth, because the more I bite the more my column will be read.

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

Much as I like owning a Rolls-Royce, I could do without it. What I could not do without is a typewriter, a supply of yellow second sheets and the time to put them to good use.

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.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

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

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

A pen connects you to the paper. It definitely matters.

The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the bird's intellectual energies and emotional character, so that when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling. The difference in geese, as discovered by this ingenious method, is considerable: many are found to have only trivial and insignificant powers, but some are seen to be very great geese indeed.

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

Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

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.