Longhand Quotes

26 quotes by 23 authors

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
I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when Iâ€™m doing fiction. — Gore Vidal
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'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
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
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
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
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
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
What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters. — Alex Flinn
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
I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand. — John Irving
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
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
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
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
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
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
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: