This is the newest edition of our popular Writer’s Pencils. Quotations offering advice and insights to inspire writers are imprinted on twenty black No. 2 pencils, four each of five quotations. The pencils are packaged in a stylish, black cardboard canister, labeled with Sarah Orne Jewett’s words, “Find your own quiet center of life and write from that to the world.”

In addition to Sarah Orne Jewett, other writers’ quotations included are:

“The shorter and plainer the better.”—Beatrix Potter

“Unless I am allowed to tell the story of my life in my own way, I cannot tell it at all.”—Mary Seacole

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”—Thomas Mann

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—’tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.”—Mark Twain

Exclusive to The Reader’s Catalog.