Activity Quote by Susan Sontag

“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 think being a writer was a crappy job when you just had typewriters. It was crappy when we just had ink and paper.…

— Colson Whitehead

“Handwriting everything, for me, is psychologically useful because it keeps my writing economical. I think there are word processor styles emerging. Something does seem…

— Clive Barker

Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is…

— Isaac Asimov

When you consider all the writers who never even had a machine. Who would have given an eyeball for a good typewriter. Any typewriter.…

— Sam Shepard

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and…

— Paul Kane

On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and…

— Donna Tartt

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?

— James D. Houston

I write on the typewriter. I like it because I like the feeling of making something with my hands. I like pressing the key…

— David McCullough

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

— Thomas Berger

Letterwriting is the natural outlet of the "odds." The busy-bodies, the idle, the perverted, the cranks, the feel-it-my-duties ... Also the plain depraved. They…

— Josephine Tey

Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep…

— Blaise Cendrars