I often write in pencil on paper and then type up later. It's much quicker than using a keyboard.

With the novels, I try to write a few pages a day - it doesn't sound much, but it can be difficult if I'm not sure where the story is going.

Somebody was using the pencil.

After using it for decades as a catalog, the papyrus was later ... sold as pulp paper.

I had pencil and paper ready and put my hand out to sign,

My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.