Reading and Writing: A Personal Account by V.S. Naipaul Leuchtturm See more on the Opus

See more on the Opus 88 fountain pens and the eye-dropper filling mechanism

Calligraphy—along with brush lettering

The Art of Slow Writing examines the benefits of writing slowly

from planting acorns or biting into crisp apples to studying tide pools or lying back and watching the birds overhead

DeSalvo describes the work habits of successful writers (among them

Reading and Writing: A Personal Account by V.S. Naipaul Leuchtturm See more on the OpusReading and Writing: A Personal Account by V. S. Naipaul I was eleven, no more, when the wish came to me to be a writer; and then very soon it was a settled ambition. But for the young V. S. Naipaul, there was a great distance between the wish and its fulfillment. To become a writer, he would have to find ways of understanding three very different cultures: his family's half remembered Indian homeland, the West Indian colonial society in which he grew