Shelby Foote on fountain pens ...

"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. I use an old-fashioned dip pen like you
used to see in post offices. It makes me take my time, and I feel
comfortable doing it, whereas the clatter of a typewriter or to turn
the drum backward to make a correction, all that's a kind of
interruption I can't stand. And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred
words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write
those million and a half words of the Civil War."
- Shelby Foote

Chris
http://amateureconblog.blogspot.com/

Speedmaster wrote:

"[...] I use an old-fashioned dip pen like you used to see in
post offices." [...]
- Shelby Foote

Since it's always nice to let people know the source of quotations:

http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/foo0int-4

To start at the beginning of the interview, go he

http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/foo0int-1

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Steve

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