“Writer-y”
From Zits.
A notebook and a pencil
When Gary Paulsen was a teenager, a librarian gave him a library card, then a book a month, then a book a week, and then a Scripto notebook and a no. 2 pencil.
“If you have to write”
From Stranger on the Third Floor.
Pencils in the news
The Guardian reports that increasing number of English schoolchildren are unable to hold a pencil properly. The reason: too much technology.
Smoke and ink
Walter Benjamin on “flow.”
William Shawn, paper and pencil
The everyday carry.
Joseph Mitchell, paper and pencil
The everyday carry.
Writerly realia
A slidehow of items that belonged to writers.
The sound of one door slamming
From a Salinger story: “a striking and handsome supply of good, sharp pencils and plenty of paper.”
Stephen Sondheim's writing habits
Blackwings and legal pads
The new Blackwing pencil
An extended review, with photographs
Liquid graphite pencils
Not exactly new
Nelson Riddle on the Blackwing pencil
He liked it
Stephen Sondheim on pencils and paper
A Blackwing and legal pad man
Margaret Atwood's rules for writers
Pencils
Carnival of Pen, Pencil, and Paper
Like it says, at Office Supply Geek
Carnival of pens, pencils, and paper
"At The Pen Addict ('. . . there are WORSE addictions, right?'), there's a carnival of pens, pencils, paper, and supplies."
Why the pencil?
Link to a piece asking and answering the question
Mongol No. 2 3/8
A pencil of the past
Thinking with pens and pencils
Dutch psychologist Christof van Nimwegen has written a dissertation arguing that pens and pencils are crucial in the development of creativity and intelligence.
John Henry's pencil
Human v. machine