Quotes About Writing

I'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really that simple.

People buy pads all the time, because they want to write stuff down. We're never going to get away from paper, ever. People like writing; that's why more people are writing more real thank-you notes now - not just to stand out, but because there's something about pen to paper, about holding something cool in your hands.

You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then.

I always have pen and paper with me.

One exercise I always do when I'm getting to know a character is ask her to tell me her secrets. Sit down with a pen and paper, and start with, 'I never told anybody...' and go from there, writing in the voice of your character.

I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think better looking down holding a pen. And the concentration quotient of pen and paper is higher than when I'm moving words around on screen.

I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.

Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.

I'm glad I wrote them when I did because I think if I were to write my first novel now, it would be a different book, and it may not be the book that everybody wants to read. But if I were given a red pen now, and I went back... I'd take that thing apart.

I write with pen and paper, my first draft, on legal pads.

Something different happens to my brain when I put pen to paper: the pace of writing or drawing slows you down and gives you more time for thoughts to come in.

It's an imaginative thing we do; it's about immersing oneself in one's imagination. If you're a novelist, you do it with pen and paper. We do it with our bodies.

When you're given a certain amount of power - like, you're a writer and an employed writer, and you put pen to paper, and people are going to read what you write - that's power.

I used to only like writing with pen and paper, but because I travel so much, I started to lose the paper.

The disparity between the haves and have-nots was always blatantly obvious to me, and it's that exact gap that drove me to start writing and pick up a pen. I wanted to explain and understand the world around me because it was easy to see it was corrupted.

As a filmmaker, if you want to write a script, all you need is some paper and a pen or a computer, that's it.

I love writing with pen and paper; I hate technology.

We have so much inspiration. It's everywhere... So I always have a pen with me and a laptop, and I write everything down.

I work in a room overlooking the river. I try to get to my desk as soon as I've fed my cats and chickens. I use a blue 3B pencil and scribble away for about 20 pages before transferring it to the computer.

I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections.

There's always a pencil in my bag. I put everything in pencil in my datebook. I live in L.A. - everyone's flaky.

I love my paper and ink, but I see the benefits of the iPad and Apple Pencil.

Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.

I could write about coal miners in Northern Pennsylvania, and people would ask if I was writing about my dad.