Composing Quote by T. S. Eliot

I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I…

— Lily King

“Often the things that pop out of my typewriter regale me, especially when I am trying to say something else and in a different…

— Tom Robbins

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

I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.

— James Salter

I go through the text making sure I haven't used any big words. If I find any fancy adjectives have crept in, I replace…

— Martin Millar

Writing was always a laborious thing for me. I never wrote fluently, I never wrote fluidly, there was something very awkward in my writing.…

— Vito Acconci

I love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If you have…

— Neil Gaiman

I am not a great fan of serious, heavy writing. I prefer simple, short sentences, light on prose.

— Ravi Subramanian

The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you…

— Jonathan Dee

The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you…

— Jonathan Dee

I don't use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I'm a horizontal writer. I think better when I'm lying down.

— Truman Capote

Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak…

— William Hazlitt