#pencil

I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old. ↗

— Robert Indiana

#art #back #children #crayons #exposure

Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red pencil, trying to reach a consensus on every word. ↗

— Jon Postel

#consensus #corporate #documents #drafted #each

It was pure guesswork on my part back in 1979 as to whether I would have the stamina to write, pencil, ink, letter, tone, and fill the back of a monthly comic book for 26 years. ↗

— Dave Sim

#book #comic #comic book #fill #i

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

— Terry Tempest Williams

#each #i #i have learned #learned #pencil

I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#done #handwriting #i #i think #like

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. ↗

— Robert Brault

#case #dead #eraser #inches #just

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

— Truman Capote

#i #i believe #i do #more #pencil

People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph. ↗

— Walt Disney

#cartoonist #check #contract #days #i

It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine. ↗

— Immanuel Velikovsky

#buy #could #describe #devotion #difficult

I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#away #cars #children #crayons #drawing