Quotes About Fountain Pens

#1. [When asked if the voice is an instrument:] Yes, of course. Some are violins, some are fountain pens and some are stethoscopes. And others are just washboards.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#2. Vintage fountain pens have provenance that makes a traditionalist go weak at the knuckles.

Fennel Hudson

#3. The publishers, as I remember at the very beginning of my career, wrote letters with their fountain pens. A letter is different from a phone call or fax. It's a different kind of intimacy. That pervaded the entire business of writing and publishing.

James Salter

#4. A man can never have too many books. Neither can he have too many fountain pens, hats, fishing rods, waistcoats, tea caddies, paintings or whatever helps him to feel at home in his surroundings and communicate his personality to the world.

Fennel Hudson

#5. I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a fountain pen, a Parker fountain pen, and I loved it, and I've never liked writing anything with pencils or ball-points.

Tony Kushner

#6. I take pride in using fountain pens. They represent craftsmanship and a love of writing. Biros, on the other hand, represent the throwaway culture of modern society, which exists on microwave ready-meals and instant coffee.

Fennel Hudson

#7. I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.

Orhan Pamuk

#8. Perhaps there are people in this world who love their fountain pens with every fiber of their being - and that's very sad. If you're not in love with him, you can understand him.

Banana Yoshimoto

#9. The dead are noble, the living worthless.

Mo Yan

#10. People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.

Laurie Anderson

#11. Life on earth is a dot, a brief window of opportunity; life in Heaven (and ultimately on the New Earth) is a line going out from that dot for eternity. If we're smart, we'll live not for the dot, but for the line.

Randy Alcorn

#12. 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

#13. You are the comfort of my soul
in the season of sorrow.
You are the wealth of my spirit
in the heartbreak of loss.

Rumi

#14. We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey. But even in failure, we can trust that He'll do more than we expect.

Mary E. DeMuth

#15. Hodel saw it through her sister's eyes: women were created to be in every way partners, not mindless slaves or brainless doormats, but helpers, collaborators, equals. And that was a thing of great beauty

Alexandra Silber

#16. After Gell-Man was done, Amos said, "You know, Murray, there is no one in the world who is as smart as you think you are.

Michael Lewis

#17. You never date someone's ex-boyfriend. Period. That's not even the unspoken rule - that's the spoken rule.

Eva Longoria

#18. I'm hopeless - all I know is that time is going past so fast.

Maggie Smith