Blog - Pen Boutique — Category_writer's quotes

“Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory.” - Harvey Mackay“Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.” - Mark Twain“The pen is very quick in getting stuff from your brain to the page.” - Graham Swift“I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.” - Julien Green“Writing ink is the magic that allows nothing to become something. It catches the fleeting idea and seeks out the glances of those who wish to see. Even a random ink splat will mean something to someone.” -Fennel Hudson

“I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.” Mahatma Gandhi“Writing letters… is such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.” - Ernest Hemingway “A man’s penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiment.” Lord Chesterfield“The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.” - Jane Austen...

“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson“I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism.” - Paul Rand“I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge.’ - Linwood Barclay“You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.” - Earl Wilson

“In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.” - Sydney Smith“I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.” - James Michener“If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.” - David Belasco“Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. “- Sylvia Plath“The act...

“My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does, a fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.” -Graham Greene, English playwright and novelist“The pen is the tongue of the mind.” - Horace, leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus“Steadily my pen filled the sheet and those long-thought-out words came nearer and nearer.” -C. S. Forester, British historical novelist“In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the...