Always Quote by John Irving

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

I write exclusively using computers. Pens and typewriters can fsck right off - I wrote my first half million words in my teens on…

— Charles Stross

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

I do write my manuscripts by hand, in pencil on legal pads. Then they are typed on a word processor by my typist.

— Nelson DeMille

I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. For non-fiction, I write happily on a computer, but for fiction I write…

— Jennifer Egan

I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.

— Noah Baumbach

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 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 happen to write by hand. I don't even type.

— John le Carre

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

Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house or office,…

— D. B. Weiss

I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen in school…

— Charles de Lint