Writing Utensil Quotes

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

I think best with a pencil in my hand.

When I'm interviewing somebody, I take notes with a Bic Cristal, the classic black-cap, clear-body, medium-weight pen. It works on many levels: You can chew the cap, and if you're really bored, you can bite the end off the back.

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.

Hold your pen and spare your voice.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

Is it an American pen? In that case, I will use it.

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

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.

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

I could write about a pencil if I wanted to. You just take it back deep enough, all the way back to the tree it came from.

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had

Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.

I've tried digital planners and fancy planners and date books galore, but my tried and true is actually just a large spiral-bound notebook.

I always write in pencil, so I can erase.

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

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

It became a habit of mine never to leave the house without a pencil in my pocket.

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.

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.

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

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.

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