Stationery Quotes

• There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.

  Charles Dickens

  Plenty, Comfortable

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Great Expectations: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.58, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Whatever you choose for your stationery is your favorite color because it's where you pour your heart out.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Heart, Color, Your Favorite

  Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Miles Between”, p.145, Macmillan

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• Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.

  Dorothy Parker

  Writing, Envelopes, Genius

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• Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Tools, Uptight

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.9, Shambhala Publications

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• If I was a criminal, stationery stores and bakeries would be the two kinds of places I would concentrate on.

  John Turturro

  Two, Criminals, Would Be

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• Love is a letter on pink stationery.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Best Love, Love Is, Letters

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• I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.

  Wallace Shawn

  Thinking, Buying, Laundry

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery.

  David Nicholls

  Notebook, Coffee, Believe

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.104, Hachette UK

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• Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.

  Graydon Carter

  Writing, Paris, Giving

  "These things I know". Interview with Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2004.

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• 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.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Hands, Feel Good

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• Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.

  Lord Acton

  Silence, Speech

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• These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, and when almost everybody wore a hat.

  John Cheever

  New York, Light, Cities

  John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”

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• A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.

  Sally Phillips

  Government, Dull, Narnia

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• Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You've got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house. The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven's "Pastoral." A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.

  Billy Wilder

  Morning, Rain, Writing

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• The fact that people go to Portland to visit a tiny feminist bookstore-no matter what the impetus is for them getting there-the fact that they go in there and look around and shop for books or stationery or whatever, is a major source of pride for me.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Book, Pride, People

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• I think it's great some hotels provide stationery. Because the first thing I like to do when I get to a hotel room is write a letter. "My dearest Gwendolyn, I arrived by nightfall at the Embassy Suites. It will be a fortnight after my return that this letter shall arrive. Allow me to explain the curious charge at the ledger. It is because I miss thee so much, darling, I accidentally ordered Sorrority Sisters 7."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Writing, Thinking

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• 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.

  Hilary Mantel

  Blue, Order, People

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• Congress allows lemonade to the members and has it charged under the head of stationery-I move also that whiskey be allowed under the item of fuel.

  Davy Crockett

  Moving, Fuel, Whiskey

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