Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"For this very reason, I preferred to reach for the pencil which surrendered its strokes more readily: I had found on not a few occasions that the rasping and spluttering of the quill had awoken me from my somnambulistic composing, distracted me and thus stifled a small product in the making." (Poetry and Truth")

Vincent van Gogh
"I also wished to tell you about a sort of pencil I have found from Faber. They are of ideal thickness; very soft and in quality superior to carpenter's pencils, a capital black and most agreeable for work on large studies. I used them to draw a seamstress on grey sans fin paper and produced an effect resembling that of lithographic chalk. These pencils are encased in soft wood, coloured dark green on the outside and cost 20 cents a piece." (Letters to van Rappard)

Joseph Beuys, Enrico Fellini, Karl Lagerfeld, Ferdinand Porsche, Wolfgang Joop, Daniel Hechter, Prince Charles of England, Crown Prince Felipe of Spain are among the many prominent artists and politicians whose preferred writing implements were and are Faber-Castell pencils.

The long Faber easel pencil which the imperial chancellor Otto von Bismarck used not just to make notes during parliamentary sessions but also – practical man as he was – to tamp the tobacco in his pipe

The Faber pencil belonging to President Ulysses Grant, who is said to have used it to sketch out battle plans while he was a general in the civil war.