Longhand Quotes

I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington. Alan Furst
Mother Old Mysteries Typed Out Longhand Wrote Little Them
I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more creative than typing, and it's a more visual process for me - I can picture the entire scene in my head and am merely writing what I see. Cecelia Ahern
Love Me Creative Writing Feeling Picture Typing Paper Pen Visual See Entire More Scene Write Head Merely Feels Longhand Am Than Process Novels
I write longhand on legal pads, about half at home and half in cafes. I drink a lot of water and eat a lot of raw carrots. Daniel Handler
Home Legal Water Half Carrots Eat About Drink Write Raw Longhand Lot Pads
The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes. Doris Kearns Goodwin
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I'm not aware of a cadence when writing, but I hear it after. I write in longhand, and that helps. You're closer to it, and you have to cross things out. You put a line through it, but it's still there. You might need it. When you erase a line on a computer, it's gone forever. Elmore Leonard
You Writing Gone Out Cross Through Computer Write Put Longhand Still Erase Line Hear Forever Closer After Might Helps Aware Things Need
Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances- by candle light, in longhand, in African villages where there was no power, under shelling in Kurdistan. Geraldine Brooks
Light Power First Before Circumstances About Write Attempting Almost Longhand Learned Because Years Reporter Any Any Circumstances Candle African Where Newspaper Newspaper Reporter Worked Novel Villages
When I was in high school, I started writing a serial novel, longhand, set in the Arthurian mythos, and influenced not incidentally by Marion Zimmer Bradley's 'The Mists of Avalon.' Greg Rucka
Writing School Marion High High School Longhand Influenced Serial Novel Started Set
I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand. John Irving
Writing First Written Longhand Always Preferred Drafts
I write non-fiction quicker, and I write it on a computer. Fiction I write longhand, and that helps make it clear that it comes from a slightly different part of the brain, I think. John Lanchester
Think Slightly Computer Write Part Clear Longhand Make Non-Fiction Brain Quicker Different Fiction Helps
I don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so old-fashioned. I could write a whole novel on scrap paper, scribbles and things. I keep looking at it and something develops. For me, using a word processor would mean staring at a screen for too many hours. Joyce Carol Oates
Me Word Looking Too Paper Would Something Could Write Feel Develops Longhand Hours Revision Scrap Screen Mean Much Page Old-Fashioned Many Using Whole Novel Keep Fast Staring Things
At the beginning of writing fiction, too much of the newspaper style was getting into the prose, so I thought, 'Gee, I should try writing longhand. Maybe I can tap something that goes back to the point before I could type.' Pete Hamill
Writing Try Too Much Thought Style Before Beginning Too Type Back Gee Something Point Could Prose Longhand Tap Goes Getting Maybe Fiction Newspaper Much Should
I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for 'working magic.' Rick Bragg
Writing Phone Interviews Airport Out Magic Longhand Got Editors Dictated Stories After Story Plane Then Working Applauded
I used to type, but now, typing or working with a computer, I get a stiff neck. So I prefer writing longhand. Ruskin Bond
Writing Type Typing Computer Longhand Stiff Get Prefer Working Used Now Neck
I do a lot of revising on paper. Sometimes I think I should just write longhand - what I type reads very different once I print it out. Sara Shepard
Sometimes Think Type Once Paper Out Write Longhand Print Reads Lot Revising Very Just Different Should
Longhand isn't well suited to my way of writing. I tend to end up with dozens of pages of crossings-out and margin scribbles just to find one good paragraph, and it's easy to lose your train of thought, working like that. Steven Hall
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I write all over the house. Because I write in longhand, I can go anywhere I want... I have some notebooks here and there, and then I type it in and pull it out, and I do the revisions all over the place. Sue Miller
Type Out Some Write Over Longhand House Because Go Want Place Anywhere Notebooks Then There And Then Here Pull
I always write on unlined typing paper and write the first draft in longhand, using cheap Bic pens. I try to write about four pages a day, which usually yields a first draft in six months. I don't plot ahead of time, so I'm flying by the seat of my pants for the first draft. Tess Gerritsen
Time Day Try First Pants Typing Months Paper Flying Plot Pens About Write Cheap Longhand Always Yields Six Which Pages Using Seat Four Draft
My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and then write longhand, into a notebook. I prefer paper and pen because it feels closer to my brain. Tracy Chevalier
Day Son Writing School Before Sit Down Paper Pen Write Feels Longhand Wrote Read Because Brain Off Get Closer Notebook Prefer Then Routine

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