Here are some quotes from famous authors about pens and the act of writing.

Dick Francis
I write by hand. I like to see a sentence on a page, see how it flows. I work in longhand in a children's exercise book and then put it on a word processor.

Thomas Fuller
I like writing with a Peacock's Quill; because its Feathers are all Eyes.

Rumer Godden
I believe, as the Chinese and Japanese calligraphers believe, that there is a mystique between the brain, the hand and the tool, pen, brush or scalpel; sometimes a flow is established between them, bringing a strange power.

Graham Greene
Some authors type their works, but I cannot do that. Writing is tied up with the hand, almost with a special nerve.

George Greenfield
Many established novelists retain the eighteenth-century method of writing books in their own hand. Novelists have often told me that they like to see the words emerging on to the paper; they feel more in control and they have a sense of achievement as one line follows another, gradually working their way down the page. Some prefer the fountain pen or the ballpoint or the felt-tip pen because it keeps them in direct contact with their medium.

Tom Robbins
I like the idea of ink flowing out of my hand and saturating the paper. There's something intimate about that. It's more like you're making something than typing is. I'm thinking of going back to raven quill. And writing in lizard blood.

A N Wilson
I write very easily in longhand.

W H Auden
Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts.

Rebecca West
My memory is certainly in my hands. I can remember things only if I have a pencil and I can write with it and I can play with it. I think your hand concentrates for you.

Ernest Hemingway
Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

John Steinbeck
Pencils must be round. A hexagonal pencil cuts my finger after a long day.

Martin Versfeld
I write in pencil. And you must be able to give it an individual point with a pocketknife. I can't think without writing, I can't use a pencil without a knife. For me to lose my penknife is for me to lose my brains.

Vladimir Nabokov
My schedule is flexible, but I am rather particular about my instruments: lined Bristol cards and well-sharpened, not too hard, pencils capped with erasers.

Ursula le Guin
The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she alone is in charge of that pencil, and responsible she and she alone, for what it write on the paper.

Rod McKuen
I'm deadly afraid of being caught without a pencil and paper. I may start something on the back of a magazine, misplace it, and finish it years later. Once the situation or the emotion is set, it's easily recaptured if it's valid. Lots of scraps of paper get thrown away.

Phyllis McGinley
Oh, shun lad the life of an author.
It's nothing but worry and waste.
Avoid the utensil,
The labouring pencil,
And pick up the scissors and paste.

Miguel de Cervantes
The pen is the tongue of the mind.

George Greenfield
As one writer put it: "This may sound mystical but I do believe it's essential to feel that something's following straight from here [he trapped his head] through my right arm, my hand, my forefinger and thumb, into the pen and right on to the paper without a break. Nothing must break the circuit."

Henry Ward Beecher
The pen is the tongue of the hand, a silent utterer of words for the eye.

Petrach
There is neither lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

John Banville
I work with a pet of a pen - a beautiful Parker which cost about $150.

George Dennision Prentice
The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.

Master Wace
It is the pen
Gives immortality to men.

William Plomer
Scratch, scratch his pen goes
Day and night,
And much inflames his
Itch to write.

Of Muriel Spark:
[She writes] unhesitatingly on the page, seldom revising a word. This is an essential part of the Spark mystique, along with her fetishist obsession for writing on the same spiral-bound note books from Thin's of Edinburg, and discarding any of her fountain pens which have been touched by anyone else.

Louis Edrich
I sort of curl up in a beat-up red easy chair and write, in longhand. I know it's old-fashioned, but at least I don't use a fountain pen any more. I used to, but I could never remember to fill it.

Jeffrey Archer
If everything is not the same, I worry. I always write on an Oxford pad, I always use black Papermate felt-tipped pens, and I always correct my work with Steadtler HB pencils.

Clare Boylan
Some writers have a personal love affair with particular pens. Others do not give a blot what comes to hand so long as it stick-shaped, silent, and able to make its mark. I was surprised to discover that about 70 per cent of writers still write full manuscripts by hand.