Books Quote by Susan Straight

I write with pen and paper, my first draft, on legal pads.

— Jennifer Egan

I write every day weekdays for about 5 hours, mostly longhand on legal pads. It has gotten neither harder nor easier, sadly or happily.

— Daniel Handler

I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.

— Beverly Cleary

I write longhand on legal pads, about half at home and half in cafes. I drink a lot of water and eat a lot…

— Daniel Handler

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

But with writing, all you need is a pad of paper.

— Scott Caan

I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I’m doing fiction.

— Gore Vidal

I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble.

— Paul Theroux

When I read a book I liked, I would get a pen and one of my father's legal pads and rewrite it from memory…

— Jonathan Dee

Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper, in notebooks…

— Roseanne Barr

I've always had ideas for more books than I can write.

— Alastair Reynolds

I have notebooks all over the place. I write little stories for my cabaret.

— Anne Reid