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When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to get a sheet of paper and pencil and crack out all the details. Hundreds and hundreds of pages. Because you have to prove it. -- Michio Kaku
Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard. -- Stephen Leacock
The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and pencil surpass him in intelligence. -- Ernst Mach
It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does. -- William Faulkner
I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder. -- Dolly Parton
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. -- Jean Cocteau
I often write in pencil on paper and then type up later. It's much quicker than using a keyboard. -- Catherine Fisher
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready. -- Eugenio Montale
I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting. -- Nelson DeMille
Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line. -- Antonio Damasio
When I was coming out of college, storytelling was very much something you did with pencil and paper, so the technological platform versatility, I think, is really valuable. -- Nancy Gibbs
My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine. -- Donald Knuth
Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away. -- Earl Nightingale
I'm impressed by the way some illustrators develop their images on computers, but it's too late for me to start, and I'm still in love with paper and paint and pencils. -- Anthony Browne
What you do is, you have your drawing board and a pencil in hand at the telescope. You look in and you make some markings on the paper and you look in again. -- Clyde Tombaugh
I'd rather have a pencil and paper and do all my own calculations rather than rely on a machine. And I'll do most calculations in double digit multiples as quick as the machine. -- Lindsay Fox
In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren't computer people, and the computer people usually aren't the artistic people, so they always stand on opposite sides of the line. -- Don Bluth
I have a tendency, more than most other physicists, to try to figure out everything all at once, before I publish. And even to try to figure out everything in my head, without pencil and paper. -- Edward Witten
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. -- Robert Wyatt
When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools. -- Michael LeBoeuf
On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting. -- William Scott
I don't much enjoy travelling, but I have always longed to take a slow train to Russia. I'd like to go alone - like writers do - with only a pencil and piece of paper as company. I'd take my sketchbook and note down all the wonderful details of other travellers. -- Jane Birkin
When I travel, I always take my Winsor & Newton watercolor kit, which is the size of a pack of cigarettes when folded up. I bought my first one in the 1980s. It was handy to bring on trips, and I packed it into a leather pouch along with a couple of brushes, a pencil, an eraser and paper. -- Susan Minot
Write . . . write . . . pencil . . . paper. -- Heinrich Heine
Pencil. Paper. Forget the world. -- Shaun Hick
Confidence is a pencil best sharpened with paper. -- Kale Burton
Don't misuse the pencil and don't torment the paper. -- Uri Shulevitz
With a pencil and paper, I could revise the world. -- Alison Lurie
Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation. -- John Howe
I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content. -- Cecil Balmond
The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper. -- William Faulkner
He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening. -- John Green
Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears. -- Emily Saliers
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine. -- Alan Turing
I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes. -- John Philip Sousa
You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical. -- Twyla Tharp
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. -- Carl Sandburg
It's amazing how many people even today use a computer to do something you can do with a pencil and paper in less time. -- Richard P. Feynman
This policeman came up to me with a pencil and a piece of very thin paper. He said, "I want you to trace someone for me." -- Tim Vine
Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and paper. -- George Polya
No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of paper and a pencil or paints. -- John Newman

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