Comfortable Quote by Chinua Achebe

I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I cross out…

— Paul Auster

I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.

— Wayne Dyer

I often write in pencil on paper and then type up later. It's much quicker than using a keyboard.

— Catherine Fisher

My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter…

— Donald Knuth

If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I've never been…

— Paul Auster

I write by ear. I tried writing with the typewriter, but I found it too unwieldy

— Groucho Marx

I always write the same way. I always write with a yellow pad and a ballpoint pen on my bed. And then I go…

— Woody Allen

I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain…

— Shelby Foote

Whenever I try to do anything on a typewriter, it's like having this machine between me and the words; what comes out is not…

— Chinua Achebe

I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think better looking…

— Joshua Ferris

I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines.

— Fran Lebowitz

I can't imagine ever writing anything of any kind on a machine. I never tried to write either poetry or prose on a typewriter.…

— W. S. Merwin