Quills Quotes - Page 2

• You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Women, Book, Hard Work

  Ellen DeGeneres (2003). “The Funny Thing Is...”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other hand, what you have to say and how you say it is the ultimate determination.

  Walter Murch

  Determination, Hands, Tools

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• He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Work, Writing

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

  Christopher Plummer

  Use, Computer, Old Fashioned

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• The Deer don't dineWhen a Wolf's about,And the PorcupineSticks his quill-points out.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Deer

  Arthur Guiterman, “Safety First”

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• Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as he looked for something that would help him write his essay, “Witch Burning in the Fourteenth Century Was Completely Pointless — discuss.

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing, Eagles, Burning

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”, p.9, Pottermore

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• The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a book, might even take it into her boudoir, and there, reclining on here silken sheets, imbibing the thrills and chills manufactured by writerly quills, one of her hands, one not absolutely needed to grip the little volume, might wander. The fear, in short, as one-handed reading. [p. 146]

  Siri Hustvedt

  Book, Reading, Doors

  Siri Hustvedt (2011). “The Summer Without Men”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.

  Ben Jonson

  Scratches, Crafts, Succeed

  Ben Jonson, William GIFFORD (Editor of the Quarterly Review.) (1853). “The Works of Ben Jonson. With a Biographical Memoir, by William Gifford. A New Edition”, p.888

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• The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.

  Lincoln Child

  Writing, Thinking, Funny Things

  "The Power of Two: Bonus Outtakes From WD Interview With Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston". Interview with Brian A. Klems, www.writersdigest.com. January 12, 2012.

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• Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.

  Orson Scott Card

  Justice, May, Blind

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• For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fall, Reading, Writing

  Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.46, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I don't use any fance quill pens or pads, because I can't read my own handwriting. I just use whatever computer is laying around, and start writing.

  Mitch Albom

  Writing, Use, Pads

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• Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Bird, Parent

  George Gordon Byron, “English Bards And Scotch Reviewers: A Satire”

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• That's very cool. Absolutely! You want to know where this guy came from, but you also want to know about the relationship between him and Quill, and how they ended up living together, for the last 18 or 19 years, without killing one another. He's a strong young man, and it's because of Yondu.

  Michael Rooker

  Strong, Men, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you stop writing, you find that's all you are - a spine, a row of rattling vertebrae, dried out like an old quill pen.

  Hilary Mantel

  Writing, Wind, Paper

  Hilary Mantel (2004). “Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir”, p.200, Macmillan

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• To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a lonely, mountainous plateau, overbouldered and strewn with the skulls of sheep slain for vellum and old bitten pinions that tried to be quills. It's forty rough miles by mule from Athens, a city where there's a fair, a movie house, cotton candy.

  Alexander Theroux

  Lonely, Real, Cities

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• The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Hands, History, Clerks

  A. J. P. Taylor (2001). “English History 1914-1945”, p.38, Oxford Paperbacks

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• As Harry and Ron rounded the clump of trees behind which Harry had first heard the dragons roar, a witch leapt out from behind them. It was Rita Skeeter. She was wearing acid-green robes today; the Quick-Quotes Quill in her hand blended perfectly against them. "Congratulations, Harry!' she said beaming at him. "I wonder if you could give me a quick word? How you felt facing that dragon? How do you feel now about the fairness of the scoring?" "Yeah, you can have a word," said Harry savagely. "Goodbye!

  J. K. Rowling

  Goodbye, Congratulations, Dragons

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• Thoth, Hermes, the stylus,
  the palette, the pen, the quill endure,
  though our books are a floor
  of smouldering ash under our feet.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Book, Feet, Ashes

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.518, New Directions Publishing

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• The fangs of a bear, and the tusks of a wild boar, do not bite worse and make deeper gashes than a goose-quill sometimes; no, not even the badger himself, who is said to be so tenacious of his bite that he will not give over his hold till he feels his teeth meet and the bones crack.

  James Howell

  Giving, Teeth, Cracks

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• GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the bird's intellectual energies and emotional character, so that when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling. The difference in geese, as discovered by this ingenious method, is considerable: many are found to have only trivial and insignificant powers, but some are seen to be very great geese indeed.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Writing, Character, Science

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.78, 谷月社

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• I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.

  Oscar Nunez

  Writing, Surfing, Use

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 8, 2008.

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• No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Science, Disorder, Cures

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.377

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• Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a quill - and yet they neglected to include the right to vote.

  Mo Rocca

  Father, Hard Work, Writing

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• All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me.... If I must not, because of my sex, have this freedom... I lay down my quill and you shall hear no more of me.

  Aphra Behn

  Sex, Privilege, Poet

  Aphra Behn (2014). “Behn Five Plays”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing

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