Early Quote by Seanan McGuire

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

When I have a first draft, I have a floor under my feet that I can walk on. Then, especially with the help of…

— Philip Roth

I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.

— Natalie Goldberg

I write most of my first drafts on an old manual typewriter, a really old one. It's a big black metal "Woodstock" from about…

— Arthur Bradford

Everything I write goes through a lot of drafts. A hundred rewrites is not unusual for me to go through - the last fifty…

— David Berman

“In the seventies I used to work in the bedroom of my flat at a little table. I worked in longhand with a fountain…

— Ian McEwan

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 have many stories which don't make it to the computer. When I put it into the computer I make some changes and often…

— Arthur Bradford

I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages.

— Joseph Heller

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

If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity…

— Susan Sontag

With a computer, you make your changes on the screen and then you print out a clean copy. With a typewriter, you can't get…

— Paul Auster