A.J. Jacobs has been writing with an old-fashioned quill for a year. He argues they allow for slower, more contemplative thinking. Writer A.J. Jacobs wrote his manuscript using a quill and ink, ...

The quill pen was the writing instrument of Colonial America. Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence on his famous lap desk using a quill. The Constitution of the United States was ...

Today, when we think of writing, the image of a man sitting in front of his desk with sheets of paper before him, a quill in his hand and an inkwell on the table, rarely comes to mind. But that was ...