Quotes About Stationery

#1. One of my favorite stores in the Old Town is Buchbinderei. It's this tiny stationery shop where the owner, Doris Feldman, makes these beautiful hand-bound notebooks I always buy for gifts.

Daniel Humm

#2. The Hemlock Tearoom and Stationery

Lemony Snicket

#3. I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.

Wallace Shawn

#4. So we stood on the corner by the stationery shop and were deeply insincere with each other.
--The Tattered Cloak

Nina Berberova

#5. A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.

Sally Phillips

#6. She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery.

David Nicholls

#7. When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The mail-order stationery people supply every need from royal blue Quink to a dazzling variety of portable hard drives.

Hilary Mantel

#8. I'm a total stationery fiend - I have drawers and drawers of lovely printed cards and wrapping paper.

Keeley Hawes

#9. Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland.

Damon Galgut

#10. I believe he collects different types of stationery,' said Vetinari. 'I have sometimes speculated that he might change his life for the better should he meet a young lady willing to dress up as a manila envelope.

Terry Pratchett

#11. I hate this idea that boys are thinking about sex nonstop and girls are thinking about - what? Stationery and garden gnomes? No.

Julie Murphy

#12. stationery of Magnum Opus,

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#13. Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.

Natalie Goldberg

#14. There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.

Charles Dickens

#15. The fact that people go to Portland to visit a tiny feminist bookstore-no matter what the impetus is for them getting there-the fact that they go in there and look around and shop for books or stationery or whatever, is a major source of pride for me,

Carrie Brownstein

#16. If I was a criminal, stationery stores and bakeries would be the two kinds of places I would concentrate on.

John Turturro

#17. I really love laser-cutting. I do a lot of laser-cut jewelry and laser-etched stationery. I'll even etch my food sometimes. You can download an image online and etch it onto a tortilla or a brownie. It's so cool to meld the digital and analog worlds together.

Brit Morin

#18. These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, and when almost everybody wore a hat.

John Cheever

#19. Over the years, I observed that many talented graphic designers, including those in my own family, had difficulty getting their designs to market. I thought it would be possible to hold open stationery design competitions where all designers could participate.

Mariam Naficy

#20. I'd describe myself as a saver, but just sometimes I can spend like a kicking horse! Ryman is the one shop I can't go past without going into. I just can't resist lovely stationery.

Joanna Lumley

#21. Also I've got a dozen pencils, all sharpened and laid out in a row. They're brand-new. I just bought them at the stationery store - especially for writing to you (not that I'm trying to make you feel grateful or anything: just-sharpened, brand-new pencils are really nice, don't you think?).

Haruki Murakami

#22. Whatever you choose for your stationery is your favorite color because it's where you pour your heart out.

Mary E. Pearson

#23. Love is a letter on pink stationery.

Charles M. Schulz

#24. Would you excuse us for just one moment?" she said to the Lynburn. "My colleague and I need to confer in our office." With that, she hauled Angela into the empty stationery cupboard and shut the door behind them.
In the darkness, Angela asked, "Why am I in a cupboard?

Sarah Rees Brennan

#25. Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.

Dorothy Parker

#26. Congress allows lemonade to the members and has it charged under the head of stationery-I move also that whiskey be allowed under the item of fuel.

Davy Crockett

#27. A really first-class company uses really fine stationery.

Letitia Baldrige

#28. Near my desk, I keep a large plastic carton filled with fresh notebooks and stationery of various kinds, sizes, and qualities.

Michael Dirda

#29. Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.

Lord Acton

#30. Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.

Graydon Carter

#31. Sometimes I fantasize that all my furniture has been destroyed in a cataclysm, and I have to start again with only the stationery catalogue. My entire house would become an office, which would be an overt recognition of the existing state of affairs.

Hilary Mantel