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“When I sit down at the typewriter, I write. Someone once asked me if I had a fixed routine before I start, like setting up exercises, sharpening pencils, or having a drink of orange juice. I said, "No, the only thing I do before I start writing is to make sure that I'm close enough to the typewriter to reach the keys."”

Ifs Writing Said Enough Keys Exercise Drink Setting Settings Fixed Routine Orange Pencils Juice Typewriters Sharpening Orange Juice Sharpening Pencils

Author:Isaac Asimov

“I liked sharpening pencils and I was like, "Oh, I wonder if I could get paid to do it." And I figured it out and I did it.”

Ifs Wonder Paid If I Could Pencils Sharpening Sharpening Pencils

Author:David Rees

“I started sharpening pencils at the census and how that was a difficult time in my life because my marriage was ending and I had quit cartooning and I didn't know what to do with myself.”

Knows Difficult Quitting Pencils Difficult Times Census Sharpening Sharpening Pencils

Author:David Rees

“I didn't dare to dream of making money. But now of course, I've made many thousands of dollars sharpening pencils.”

Made Dream Courses Dollars Dare Making Money Pencils Dare To Dream Sharpening Sharpening Pencils

Author:David Rees

“I take pop culture really seriously, I think it's really important, and the stuff that I make...I don't want it to be insubstantial, even if it's about something wacky, like sharpening pencils. I feel like I owe it to myself and I owe it to people who are really interested in pencils and I owe it to anybody to do my due diligence and give them something real.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Giving Feels Important Real Culture Stuff Pops Dues Pencils Pop Culture Diligence Wacky Something Real Sharpening Due Diligence Sharpening Pencils

Author:David Rees

“Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.”

Ifs Want School Fall Names New York Addresses Autumn Mail Pencils Supplies Bouquets Fall Autumn Sharp Pencils Sharpening Pencils

Author:Nora Ephron

“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.”

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

Art Film Materials Paper Pencils Raw Materials Inexpensive Pencil Sharpeners Paper And Pencil Sharpening Pencils

Author:Jean Cocteau

“Once I read a story about a butterfly in the subway, and today, I saw one. It got on at 42nd, and off at 59th, where, I assume it was going to Bloomingdales to buy a hat that will turn out to be a mistake - as almost all hats are.”

Stories Today Turns Mistake Saws Assuming Hats Mail Butterfly Subway And Off I Get Butterflies Sharpening Pencils

Author:Miklos Laszlo

“Once you use a toothbrush to clean a pencil sharpener, you should no longer use it to clean your teeth.”

Should Use Clean Teeth Pencils Toothbrushes Sharpener Pencil Sharpeners Sharpening Pencils

Book:How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants

Source: How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants

“About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.”

Trying Use Language Impossible Stupid Ten Vain Pencils Programming Languages Blunt Computer Language Axes Use Of Language Sharpening Pencils

Book:Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective

Source: Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective

“Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me wanna buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. On the other hand, this not knowing has its charms.”

Ifs Hands School Fall Names Knowing New York Charm Addresses Mail Not Knowing Pencils Supplies Bouquets Fall Autumn Sharp Pencils Sharpening Pencils

Author:Tom Hanks