Anthony Horowitz on Fountain Pens

[Beechwood]

Anthony Horowitz, writer and novelist, loves fountain pens and buys a new one before starting any new writing project:

 

"I love to write with a fountain pen and my favourite ink is Writers Blood, it is an essential part of the writing process and I hate the idea of technology being a barrier between myself and the written page."

[inkstainedruth]

Interesting!  Thanks for posting this.

Ironically, I picked a (used) copy of Magpie Murders a while back (after having seen the TV series -- and at least one of the "sequel series" shows as well -- on PBS).  But haven't gotten around to reading it yet (still re-working my way through Agatha Christie's stuff), and also finally found my copy of Robert Fisher's The Knight in Rusty Armor, which I picked up somewhere a while back, as much as anything because of the title, because the first record I ever bought (I was maybe 5 or 6) was an old Peter & Gordon 45 RPM record with a song of the same name on one side -- mostly for the title of course -- but discovered I actually liked the song).  And the B side, "The Flower Lady" isn't bad either....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[boilermaker1975]

@Beechwood Writers Blood is one of my favorites. 

[Beechwood]

11 hours ago, boilermaker1975 said:

@Beechwood Writers Blood is one of my favorites. 

 

You can understand why he uses that ink, in an interview he said that there are times when he is in the zone and the words and plot lines feel like they are flowing down his arm and out through his pen, I suspect that many of us have been there.

 

He is a real fountain pen fan, I can, we can, all understand his passion.

[boilermaker1975]

2 hours ago, Beechwood said:

 

You can understand why he uses that ink, in an interview he said that there are times when he is in the zone and the words and plot lines feel like they are flowing down his arm and out through his pen, I suspect that many of us have been there.

 

He is a real fountain pen fan, I can, we can, all understand his passion.

 

Writer's Blood is one of the best flowing inks I have found.