I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.
We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.
Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.
As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone.
With a pencil and paper, I could revise the world.
History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.
Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.
Type as quickly as you can and always carry a pencil.
Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil - it has no point.
He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.
My pencil is like a fencer's foil.
The pencil is mightier than the pen.
I built the film [Boy and the World] this way. I gathered all the tools I usually use such as brushes, color pencils, crayons, watercolors, and everything else I found in my studio, and I put them on top of a table. I had this feeling of freedom and possibility like if I was this boy. I was using the boy's freedom to create this film.
Write. . . write. . . pencil. . . paper.
I have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a new notebook. I have dozens of them just sitting around.
I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil.
The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.
A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.
The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches with pencil.
My heart is a colored pencil but my brain is an eraser