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Five Favourite Pen Quotes
This morning the promised fountain pen arrived on my doorstep. Joy, rapture, et cetera. It looks like this, if you’re curious.
In honour of this auspicious day (auspicious: from the Latin, meaning good-looking entrails), here are a few of my favourite quotes about writers and their pens.
There is neither lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
Petrarch
I’m not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it’s really that simple.
Anthony Horowitz
A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
J.R.R. Tolkien
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
Graham Greene
In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
Pearl S. Buck