Top 1200 Paper And Pen Quotes & Sayings

I like to write paper mail - nobody does that anymore - with my pen pals.

I got to take classes in writing with a fountain pen, and actually, something you make is your own textbook. So, while you're learning about something, you have to write essays on it, and then you handwrite in cursive, in fountain pen, your essays out on beautiful paper and you bind it together into a book that you hand in at the end of the course.

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

I revise like crazy. I start revising before the pen hits the paper.

Everyone has access to a pen and paper, but to be a great writer is difficult.

I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I cross out a lot - I'm not writing in stone tablets, it's just ink on paper. I don't feel comfortable without a pen or a pencil in my hand. I can't think with my fingers on the keyboard. Words are generated for me by gripping the pen, and pressing the point on the paper.

As a filmmaker, if you want to write a script, all you need is some paper and a pen or a computer, that's it.

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

Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.

It's an imaginative thing we do; it's about immersing oneself in one's imagination. If you're a novelist, you do it with pen and paper. We do it with our bodies.

It's so hard to do the right thing with a pen and a piece of paper and a set of abstract thoughts.

I always have pen and paper with me.

I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place.

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.

Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.

Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.

I like to figure out what the production opportunities are for the things I'm interested in before I put pen to paper.

To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.

I was a pen pal with one guy, a long time ago. I think we only wrote to each other twice. We didn't really keep it up that long. But, I love it. I think it's really sweet and very creative and freeing, when you get to put a pen to paper, 'cause you don't really do it that much these days, with all this technology.

I'm still a soldier, fighting with my pen and paper for peace till the day I cease.

Most people who talk about either entitlement cuts or revenue - when you have to put pen to paper, it is much more difficult.

There is something very sensual about a letter. The physical contact of pen to paper, the time set aside to focus thoughts, the folding of the paper into the envelope, licking it closed, addressing it, a chosen stamp, and then the release of the letter to the mailbox - are all acts of tenderness.

I have a real aversion to machines. I write with a pen. Then I read it to someone who writes it onto the computer. What are those computer letters made of anyway? Light? Too insubstantial. Paper, you can feel it. A pen. There's a connection. A pen goes exactly at your speed, whereas that machine jumps. And then, that machine is waiting for you, just humming "uh-huh, yes?

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.

I love writing thank-you notes. There's something very nostalgic to me about the feel of a card and putting pen to paper. How many times in our lives are we required to put pen to paper anymore?

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

I write with pen and paper, my first draft, on legal pads.

In love matters; keep your pen from paper.

Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn.

This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.

I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying.

Putting pen to paper lights more fire than matches ever will

Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm, a brand of paper, but most often a writing instrument. Am I writing well? Thank my pen. Am I writing badly? Don't blame me blame my pen. By such displacements does the fearful imagination defend itself.

I usually make to-do lists with timelines, and pen and paper does the trick for me.

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place

I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.

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

I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.

We have so much access to video and audio recording equipment that it's kind of the new pen and paper.

Maybe there's something new that can document an idea quicker, but pen and paper have always been pretty handy for me.

When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.

I swear I have at least one good song idea a day. But if I don't get pen to paper in ten seconds, it's gone forever.

I used to only like writing with pen and paper, but because I travel so much, I started to lose the paper.

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 don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think better looking down holding a pen. And the concentration quotient of pen and paper is higher than when I'm moving words around on screen.

My pen and paper causes a chain reaction, to get your brain relaxing.

So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

I love writing with pen and paper; I hate technology.

Faulkner was the first novelist I read with pen and paper in hand because his technique stunned me.

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

A blank page of paper and a pen is the greatest invention its so exciting to be confronted by possibility.

Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.

If someone writes a great story, people praise the author, not the pen. People don't say, 'Oh what an incredible pen...where can I get a pen like this so I can write great stories?' Well, I am just a pen in the hands of the Lord. He is the author. All praise should go to him.

My pen.’ Funny, I wrote that without noticing. ‘The torch’, ‘the paper’, but ‘my pen’. That shows what writing means to me, I guess. My pen is a pipe from my heart to the paper. It’s about the most important thing I own.

I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.

Give me a paper and pen, so I can write about my life of sin. A couple of bottles of gin, in case I don't get in.

I need paper and pen to release my imagination. I can't create on a machine.

I'm a total technophobe. What is wrong with paper and pen? I was delighted when I learnt the word 'Luddite,' as I thought it described me perfectly.