When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.

I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India.

I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections.

I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.

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.