Quotes About Expression

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.

What happens to us all, I think, when we pick up a pen, is that we just become snobs.

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 couldn't write because my nervous system was so bad - I couldn't even use a pen.

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.

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.

It seems like if they'd given Bob Dylan a pen and paper in the cradle that he would've come up with a great song. I'd love to write songs like that.

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 was Eazy's pen, because he couldn't write lyrics.

You should almost always draw in pen. It forces you to be confident. You can never erase, so it makes you really focus on your line and not wimp out.

I've never been able to sit down with a pen and paper and kind of craft out a song, or really force anything out. It always has to come almost subconsciously.

I have always been a pencil.

I love eyebrows, so brow pencils and brow shadow are really important to me.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

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

We lived in my father's studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it would - it was very natural for me to want to paint, I think, and it was never a question.