Heinrich Heine Quotes

I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India.

I think best with a pencil in my hand.

A pen connects you to the paper. It definitely matters.

I was extremely shy. And I simply didn't know how to go about it. It seemed a lot easier to write than to make films. All I needed was a pencil and a piece of paper, whereas filmmaking was something I had no access to.

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

A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.

Writing has always had that tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.

I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

The notepad is open and the hand is writing.

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

The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she alone is in charge of that pencil, and responsible, she and she alone, for what it writes on that paper.

I'm finding things out about myself as a person - as a writer - as I write, and so are the people who listen to what I do. But they have this additional aspect of how they take the stuff that I do, and so it broadens the work and it creates this strange connection. It's really a way of strangers communicating through this third thing, which is a body of work. But really, I know it's a cliché to say I write for myself, but I write for myself.

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

Writing is the great invention of the world.

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

Type as quickly as you can and always carry a pencil.

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

You can have a poem like "B-Movie" and sum up thirty conversations that people have had on the subject, but I wrote it down, and other people didn't.

It became a habit of mine never to leave the house without a pencil in my pocket.

I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.

Write," he said. "I'll write to you as soon as I get there," answered Julian. "No. Not to me. Write books. Not letters. Write them for me, for Penelope.

Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you start writing, and I can't really see it. I feel like the words are much more naked in pencil, on a notebook. I feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather than if I have a keyboard. I tend to add more in the margins. I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.

I wanted to write and then I saw Pierrot and I understand that I could express myself in a more... Also probably, I had an intuition that if I was going to only write, I will stay in one room all the time and never go out. I felt that if I was going to make movies, I would have to communicate with people and it would be good for me.

I work with pen and paper. That's my favorite way to write. I love the way the ink sinks into the wood, soaks into the wood pulp. There's something about that process that's so organic.