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• He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Reality, Psychosis, Trying

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• Nothing in the world is like this-
  a bright white page with
  pale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened pencil
  the soft hush of it
  moving finally
  one day
  into letters.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Moving, Blue, White

  Jacqueline Woodson (2014). “Brown Girl Dreaming”, p.136, Penguin

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

  Dolly Parton

  Tape, Paper, Far Away

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  The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

  Francis Bacon

  Jobs, Affliction, Ghost

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Adversity'

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• 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

  Book, Writing, Exercise

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.201, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Vanity, Landscape, Said

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• Somebody was using the pencil.

  Dorothy Parker

  Procrastination

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• As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  I Have Learned, Betray, Picks

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• When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Mother, Air, Littles

  "I pick up my pen. A building appears" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2007.

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• I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Design, Black

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• Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd

  William Blake

  Race, Different Faces, Envy

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.149, Wordsworth Editions

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• What I've become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you'd rather stick those pencils in your eyes. Sometimes I almost punish myself - if I'm not going be able to write, I'm not going be able to do anything else. I just sit there and wait.

  Ron Rash

  Hate, Writing, Eye

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• Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.

  Antonio Damasio

  Running, Writing, Hands

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• History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.

  Emilie Autumn

  Forever, Crayon, Written

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• I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

  Truman Capote

  Believe, Writing, Editing

  Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1986). “Conversations with Capote”, Plume

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• Type as quickly as you can and always carry a pencil.

  Clive Thompson

  Type

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• What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?

  Jules Verne

  Horror, Scene, Pens

  Jules Verne (2016). “The Mysterious Island”, p.433, Xist Publishing

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• A desk, some pads, a pencil, and a large basket -- to hold all of mu mistakes.

  Albert Einstein

  Mistake, Pads, Desks

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• 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

  Inspiring, Writing, Computer Literacy

  Robert S. McNamara (1968). “The Essence of Security: Reflections in Office”, New York : Harper & Row

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• I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

  John Steinbeck

  Long, Tools, Literature

  "Writers at Work". Book edited by George Plimpton, 1977.

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• A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

  Theodor Adorno

  Doe, Use, Rubber

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• He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.

  John Green

  Paper, Happenings, Focused

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.90, Penguin

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• There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.

  Dorothy Parker

  Best Years Of Your Life, Syntax, Study

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• Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

  Anne Lamott

  Brother, Father, Book

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, Anchor

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• Oh relax." I waved my hand dismissively. "If he wanted to kill me, he already would have. I brought him all these sharp pencils, ideal for stabbing, and he's been a perfect gentleman.

  Kiersten White

  Hands, Perfect, Gentleman

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