“We all make mistakes. That's why my pencil has an eraser.”

“Write your plans in pencil and give God the eraser.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

“When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“Hell, that's why they make erasers.”

Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union

“I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.”

Vladimir Nabokov book Speak, Memory

“A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.”

Marilyn vos Savant (1946) US American magazine columnist, author and lecturer

“We all make mistakes but one has to move on.”

Jeffrey Archer (1940) English author and former politician

“Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all 'meaning' of the thing seen. Then only, could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.”

Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015) American painter, sculptor, and printmaker

“The man who has never made a mistake has no need of an eraser; just so the man who has never done anything wrong has no need of a Redeemer.”

Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter

“Why be afraid to make an honest mistake?”

Demi Lovato (1992) American singer, songwriter, actress, and author