Chinua Achebe Quotes

I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.

I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.

I can write anywhere. But I don't use a computer, and I could never write on a laptop. I hate the sound of computers; it's too dull, like it's not doing anything for you.

I never work on a computer. I can't write on a computer. It's just not possible for me to do that.

I love writing with pen and paper; I hate technology.

I'm very primitive; I write with a pen.

I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.

I don't use a computer in writing at all. I'm sort of old-fashioned about it.

I think now, whenever I write, there is nothing that will really compare to pen and paper.

I have always preferred paper and ink to a computer screen and I still write most of my lyrics by hand.

I happen to write by hand. I don't even type.

I don't read anything electronically. I don't write electronically, either - except e-mails to my family and friends. I write in longhand. I have always written first drafts by hand, but I used to write subsequent drafts and insert pages on a typewriter.

I can't imagine ever writing anything of any kind on a machine. I never tried to write either poetry or prose on a typewriter. I like to do it on useless paper, scrap paper, because it's of no importance.

I write with my brain. I don't need a computer.

I hate typing but I love to write manually.

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

I work with pen and paper. That's my favorite way to write. I love the way the ink sinks into the wood, soaks into the wood pulp. There's something about that process that's so organic.

I don't know how to type so I handwrite everything.

I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer.

I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.

If I had had a thing like an iPad when I was a kid, then I never would have gotten into the habit of writing things down by hand.

My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.

I write by hand and then transfer the text onto the computer. I like the process of actually having a pen in my hand. Things flow more easily for me that way.

So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.

I just feel like there's a better mind-to-pen connection for me than a mind-to-keyboard connection.