Longhand Quotes
26 quotes by 23 authors
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Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances- by…
— Geraldine Brooks
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I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I’m doing fiction.
— Gore Vidal
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I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages.
— Joseph Heller
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I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.
— Beverly Cleary
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I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more…
— Pat Morita
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All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.
— Martin Amis
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The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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I love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If you have a…
— Neil Gaiman
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I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then…
— Rick Bragg
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The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you write…
— Jonathan Dee
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What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters.
— Alex Flinn
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He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was…
— A. E. Hotchner
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I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.
— John Irving
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I don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so old-fashioned. I could write a…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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I write in longhand and assemble lots of notes, and then I try to collate them into a coherent chronology. It's like groping along in…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen.…
— Colm Toibin
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The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your head, there's nothing…
— Colm Toibin
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I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity, indoor plumbing, central…
— Edward Abbey
Who Wrote These Longhand Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 26 Longhand Quotes as follows: