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I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out. — Ian McKellen

I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous. — Stephen King

Mathematician need only peace of mind and occasionally, paper and pencil. — Paul Hoffman

She told me to draw the curtains shut, so I grabbed my pencil and began to sketch. — Jarod Kintz

The ink line drawing flowed the cursive journey,
created on paper canvas that brought the story to life. — Jazz Feylynn

College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil. — Ruby Wax

The shortest pencil is longer than the longest memory — Mark Batterson

What?!" Auburn says into the phone. "What kind of secret phrase is 'pencil dick'? — Colleen Hoover

It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name. — Dave Mustaine

A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence. — Howard Whitley Eves

Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears. — Emily Saliers

My technique, starting with a quick outline in pencil, is designed to record first impressions, with no time for second thoughts. — John Newbery

The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end. — Marty Neumeier

The day guy was an aquiline black man about seven feet tall, but slender as a pencil, folded into a desk chair that was far too small for him. — Lee Child

The pen feels unnatural in my hand. It's so much weightier than pencil. Permanent. There are no erasers, in life. - Alexis Riggs — Cynthia Hand

Clean this place out. I want hard drives, gadgets, papers, circuit boards, everything. Grab the pencil sharpener if it looks interesting. — Paul Dini

It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world. — William Graham Sumner

Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard. — Stephen Leacock

Graffiti is linear, and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. — Cy Twombly

Don't waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better. — Seth Godin

I think when you're knee-deep in coming up with editorial plans, the desire to sit down and pencil something is pretty strong. — Jim Lee

The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free. — James Dyson

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. — Jean Cocteau

I normally like to do a lip pencil and then fill it in with the same pencil because it stays on all day, and you don't have to reapply it. — Khloe Kardashian

Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again. — Walter J. Phillips

You can write a letter with a typewriter, a pencil, or a crayon. What you have to say is the important thing. — Paul Strisik

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly. — Bernard Malamud

When you make a promise, you're not giving your word in erasable pencil, you're inscribing your commitment in indelible ink. — Frank Sonnenberg

....and on occasion I like to write in pencil, because I need to know that I can erase the words, even if I never do. — Bruce Black

Magic has a logic, like algebra. Once you get to know it, it's easy. If this, then that. You write with a pencil, you don't make frog soup with it. — Catherynne M Valente

Chomsky is a pencil-and-paper theoretician who wouldn't know Jabba the Hutt from the Cookie Monster, — Steven Pinker

They put an eraser on a pencil for a reason. — Judy Sheindlin

I do write my manuscripts by hand, in pencil on legal pads. Then they are typed on a word processor by my typist. — Nelson DeMille

As for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink. — Dorothy Parker

Well, I come down in the morning and I take up a pencil and
I try to THINK. — Hans Bethe

Sharpen your life always; even though it will come to an end like a pencil, we have to keep on writing — Munia Khan

I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I don't want to be penciled in anywhere, pencil can be erased. — Jodi Ellen Malpas

No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of paper and a pencil or paints. — John Newman

With pencil, you can always erase. — Sue Monk Kidd

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

Fucking bastard, I'll stab you in the chest with this pencil. — Koushun Takami

I definitely feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather than if I have a keyboard. — Lily King

Excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand. — William Blake

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost! — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

I expected perfection as soon as the pencil hit the paper, and since that's impossible, I couldn't get myself to start. — Felicia Day

If somebody writes a great poem, people don't run around applauding the pencil, saying 'Oh, what a great pencil' ... I'm a pencil in God's hands. — Keith Green

The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success. — Robert Benchley

Some of my biggest complaints about acting in television were that I was always wearing a tight dress or pencil skirt, and I was always wearing heels. — Trieste Kelly Dunn

I do not know if you bridle your pen, but when my pencil moves, it is necesary to let it go, or - crash! ... nothing more. — Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

If you're going to write about love, write it in pencil. — Han Yujoo

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

Great ideas are fish in a stream. Your pen/pencil is a spear. If you don't spear them, they'll swim on by. Be ready. — James Scott

I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil. — Billy Collins

We return to the places we're from; we trample faded corners and pencil in new lines. — Anthony Doerr

NASA spent millions of dollars inventing the ball-point pen so they could write in space. The Russians took a pencil. — Will Chabot

A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does. — Marilyn Vos Savant

This policeman came up to me with a pencil and a piece of very thin paper. He said, "I want you to trace someone for me." — Tim Vine

A pencil is a wand and a weapon. Be careful. Protect yourself. It can be glorious. — Terry Tempest Williams

You're such a cheater. The best wood in your golf bag is your pencil! — Rex Pickett

A pencil in my hand, its secret life / is charcoal, the wood already burnt, / a sacrifice. — Marianne Boruch

You know nothing. You're nothing but a skank-ass, pencil-dick hemorrhoid. And you smell like anal leakage." "Say what? — Janet Evanovich

I have always been a pencil. — Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

Don't use pencil, for writing on your lover's heart it might erase. Always use ball point pen. — Biranchi Narayan

Seeing how a hand carves out meaning with a pencil point lets us remember that the human touch is essential. — Jill Ciment

Pencil. Paper. Forget the world. — Shaun Hick

The pencil is mightier than the pen. — Robert M. Pirsig

We pencil sketch our past lives so we can compare it to the Technicolor of the moment. — David Levithan

It is possible to draw a straight line with a crooked pencil. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning. — Samuel Beckett

life is like a pencil,whenever it breaks you sharpen it again,that's how life is. — Elizabeth Buah

I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor pem — Dante Gabriel Rossetti

What's this? That little red-haired girl dropped her pencil ... Gee ... It's got teeth marks all over it ... She nibbles her pencil ... She's human! — Charles M. Schulz

I often write in pencil on paper and then type up later. It's much quicker than using a keyboard. — Catherine Fisher

Turner was like a pencil. He bent around that pitch! — Jerry Coleman

Faith is the pencil of the soul that pictures heavenly things. Thomas Burbridge — Jack Canfield

Style a classic pencil skirt with on-trend prints to end the week in style. — Lubov Azria

Our TV and movie cops are usually in heels and pencil skirts. — Allison Tolman

You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead. — Stan Laurel

You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas ... when you actually do something physical. — Twyla Tharp

The pencil-stroke is like cutting into the heart. — Gunter Brus

I wear anything I feel like. If I want to put on a pair of Converse with a pencil stuck through them, I will. — Willow Smith

I'm naturally a mousy blonde, so I dye my hair, and my eyebrows would disappear if I didn't get through at least a pencil a month. — Beth Ditto

I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder. — Dolly Parton

He pushed enthusiastically, his biceps standing out on his arms like peas on a pencil. — Terry Pratchett

Don't misuse the pencil and don't torment the paper. — Uri Shulevitz

Within these margins I find my serenity - with a blank page and a pencil, I am set free. — Jordyn McKenzie

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky. — William Merritt Chase

Somebody was using the pencil. — Dorothy Parker

was absorbed and deaf to the world; alternately scribbling and sucking the top of his pencil. It — Kenneth Grahame

Just get out your magic pencil and erase the cloudy skies, and just draw a picture of me saying, I apologize. — Bill Anderson

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen. — Paul Graham

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage. — Robert McNamara

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Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life. — Stephen King

I have to stop writing and use a sharpener. That makes the pencil suffer a — Paulo Coelho

Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs. — Katherine Applegate

I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece. — Ron Pearson

What really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you. — Paulo Coelho

If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2? — George Carlin

Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her. — Charles Dickens