Write Longhand Quotes

I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages.

— Joseph Heller

I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.

— Beverly Cleary

I don't use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I'm a horizontal writer. I think better when I'm lying…

— Truman Capote

I write longhand on legal pads, about half at home and half in cafes. I drink a lot of water and eat…

— Daniel Handler

I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.

— James Salter

I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand…

— Mary Ann Hoberman

I do a lot of revising on paper. Sometimes I think I should just write longhand - what I type reads very…

— Sara Shepard

When it comes to actually writing the book/story, I work on a computer. I wish I could write longhand, but I can't.

— Paul G. Tremblay

All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a…

— Martin Amis

I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the…

— Erin Morgenstern

I'm not aware of a cadence when writing, but I hear it after. I write in longhand, and that helps. You're closer…

— Elmore Leonard

I write in longhand and assemble lots of notes, and then I try to collate them into a coherent chronology. It's like…

— Joyce Carol Oates

The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going.…

— Jonathan Dee

I do not belong to this world. I continue to write everything in longhand. If I have to see something on the…

— Elie Wiesel

I write non-fiction quicker, and I write it on a computer. Fiction I write longhand, and that helps make it clear that…

— John Lanchester

The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going.…

— Jonathan Dee