Quotes About The Fountain Pen

#1. None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

Mark Twain

#2. As long as I live I'll never forget the time he had a bank president pinched, or rather I did, on no evidence whatever except that the fountain pen on his desk was dry. I was never so relieved in my life as when the guy shot himself an hour later.

Rex Stout

#3. He picked up the fountain pen and clicked the top on and off a few times while he listened.

Hugh Laurie

#4. All the friends in the world are in the fountain of a pen.

Michelle Franklin

#5. You can borrow my Blackbird, if you like,' said Ben. This was his new fountain pen, which troubled him. It was guaranteed not to leak but writers and schoolchildren knew better. Ben wished to be relieved of the responsibility of the Blackbird, without losing his own dignity.

Penelope Fitzgerald

#6. For example, a telegram is a "lightning-letter"; a wireless telegram is a "not-have-wire-lightning-communication"; a fountain-pen is a "self-flow-ink-water-brush"; a typewriter is a "strike-letter-machine". Most of these neologisms are similar in the modern languages of China and Japan.

Wolfram Eberhard

#7. What I didn't realize was how many doors the act of writing unlocks, as if my Dad's old fountain pen wasn't really a pen at all, but some strange variety of skeleton key.

Stephen King

#8. 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

#9. Poverty is poverty, whether the tool you work with is a pick-axe or fountain pen.

George Orwell

#10. I'm left with one consolation, small though it may be: my fountain pen was cremated, just as I would like to be some day.

Anne Frank

#11. The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.

C.S. Forester

#12. Proper writing ink comes in a bottle, can be swirled like brandy in a glass, and smells like apple blossom after rain.

Fennel Hudson

#13. There's something special about writing by hand, writing with a fountain pen, and there's something special about writing into a book, to take a blank book and turn it into an actual book.

Joe Haldeman

#14. Even a best fountain-pen cannot make a writer be a fount of eloquence, but fountains teach to sob with ecstasy.

Lara Biyuts

#15. Some men rob you with a six-gun
others rob you with a fountain pen.

Woody Guthrie

#16. The owner of the Agut d'Avignon had the air of a 1920s dandy who had ruined himself with one mad night of gambling at baccarat and had only been saved by this restaurant, which he seemed to cherish as if it were his wife or a good fountain pen.

Manuel Vazquez Montalban

#17. I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a fountain pen, a Parker fountain pen, and I loved it, and I've never liked writing anything with pencils or ball-points.

Tony Kushner

#18. She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery.

David Nicholls

#19. My pen is an artery, my heart is a fountain

Jay Electronica

#20. Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun, And some with a fountain pen.

Woody Guthrie

#21. A pen transmits the voice of the soul.

Fennel Hudson

#22. I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.

Colm Toibin

#23. There was one 'crime' during the whole time I was at school, when a fountain pen went missing. Stealing just didn't happen. I was taught not to shoplift, not to steal, not to behave badly. We weren't even allowed to drop litter.

Joanna Lumley

#24. The musings are the same I believe the fire to create burns so heavily that I am never far from a guitar or a fountain pen.

Shelby Lynne

#25. I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India.

Damon Galgut

#26. I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of a scene is usually the tenth or so draft.

John Dufresne

#27. I am a highly disciplined person. I get up at seven every morning and, still in my pajamas, sit down at my desk where my checkered ring binders and my fountain pen are ready for use. I try to write two pages every day.

Orhan Pamuk

#28. It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.

Immanuel Velikovsky

#29. Also, please charge my fountain pen and bring it with you.

Jonathan L. Howard

#30. One page a day, seven a week, thirty or thirty-one to the month. Fishing in his pocket for a tip, he came up with his pen, a thick black fountain pen. Fountain: it seemed less flowing, less forthcoming than that, in shape more like a bullet or a bomb. ("Novelty")

John Crowley

#31. I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.

Shelby Foote

#32. I've had a fountain pen surgically implanted in my left index finger to save trouble. My body is tattooed with line upon line of truth, fiction, and a not-always-pleasing mix of the two.

Chila Woychik

#33. If you do not lend your car, your fountain pen or your wife to anyone, that is because these objects, according to the logic of jealously, are narcissistic equivalents of the ego: to lose them, or for them to be damaged, means castration.

Jean Baudrillard

#34. Vintage fountain pens have provenance that makes a traditionalist go weak at the knuckles.

Fennel Hudson

#35. I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections.

Paul Auster

#36. I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen. Then I work on a word processor using a different desk and a different room.

Colm Toibin