Question

select the correct text in the passage.
which sentence most refines the idea that the author needs very little to encourage him to write?
(2) in the ordinary way, when shakespeare writes a tragedy, or mr. blank gives you one of his charming little essays, a certain amount of thought goes on before pen is put to paper. one cannot write \scene i. an open place. thunder and lightning. enter three witches,\ or \as i look up from my window, the nodding daffodils beckon to me to take the morning,\ one cannot give of ones best in this way on the spur of the moment. at least, others cannot. but when i have a new nib in my pen, then i can go straight from my breakfast to the blotting - paper, and a new sheet of foolscap fills itself magically with a stream of blue - black words. when poets and idiots talk of the pleasure of writing, they mean the pleasure of giving a piece of their minds to the public; with an old nib a tedious business. they do not mean (as i do) the pleasure of the artist in seeing beautifully shaped \ks\ and sinuous \ss\ grow beneath his steel. anybody else writing this article might wonder \will my readers like it?\ i only tell myself \how the compositors2 will love it!\

Explanation:

To determine the sentence that refines the idea the author needs little to encourage writing, we analyze each option. The sentence "But when I have a new nib in my pen, then I can go straight from my breakfast to the blotting - paper, and a new sheet of foolscap fills itself magically with a stream of blue - black words" shows that a simple thing like a new nib is enough to make the author start writing immediately, which aligns with the idea of needing very little encouragement. Other sentences either discuss others' writing processes or the pleasure of writing in a different context.

Answer:

But when I have a new nib in my pen, then I can go straight from my breakfast to the blotting - paper, and a new sheet of foolscap fills itself magically with a stream of blue - black words.