Achieve Quote by Jennifer Egan

I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I do that…

— Jennifer Egan

I write first drafts by hand, often out of the house somewhere, and then, when I've got a draft, type it up and let…

— David Means

The thing for someone just starting off [in writing] is to write. You need to have limber fingers, whether you write with your fingers…

— Augusten Burroughs

I am somebody who usually writes out the rough draft in longhand. Then I type it into the computer, and that is where I…

— Barack Obama

I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away from anything…

— Jennifer Egan

Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it…

— Robin Wells

I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing. It literally…

— Elizabeth Strout

I'm not typing. I write only by longhand. I've always written first drafts by hand and then once I was into a second or…

— John Irving

You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to…

— Sean Connery

Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline…

— Ted Solotaroff

I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I think that's common…

— David Nicholls

Ideally, writing ought to be like riding a bicycle: something you know how to do without having to think consciously about exactly what it…

— Brian Stableford