“... we produced a bundle of pens, a copious supply of ink, and a goodly show of writing and blotting paper. For there was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationary.”
“There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.”
“I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.”
“I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.”
“And if all the trees on earth were pens and the ocean [were ink], with sevenoceans behind it to add to its [supply], yet would not the words of Allah beexhausted [in the writing]: for Allah is Exalted in Power, full of Wisdom.”
“I have found that the tools for my trade- writing, are very basic: paper, a pen, time, food and perhaps a little tequila...”