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.
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.
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.
I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India.
I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.
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.
Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.
But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.
I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am the most habitual extemporaneous speaker that I have ever known.
A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
I think comics are faster to draw with a pen and then fill and tone by computer. But my illustrations are all done via computer. I even draw the lines on a tablet.
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.
I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
A writer without a pen would be like a duck without water!
The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
The pen is mightier than the sword.
The pen is mightier than the sword, and is considerably easier to write with.