Olga Fonda Quotes

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

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I have to write everything down.

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

I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think better looking down holding a pen. And the concentration quotient of pen and paper is higher than when I'm moving words around on screen.

My first five novels were written longhand. So were hosts of short stories.

Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I write first drafts with a mechanical pencil and a yellow legal pad. There's good reason for this primitive behavior: I am a crackerjack typist. My hand moves far more quickly than my brain.

I often write in pencil on paper and then type up later. It's much quicker than using a keyboard.

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

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

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

I don't use computers... I'm someone who needs to see the page right away in my 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.

We have so much inspiration. It's everywhere... So I always have a pen with me and a laptop, and I write everything down.

I collect words and phrases and cut things out of newspapers and keep scrapbooks and write down ideas in my phone or 10,000 notebooks all around my house. It's not very organised, but I keep collecting, so I did have a lot of material to help me to write songs.

Sunday is a likely day to write a poem. Because poetry is a piece of language flying around: you'll find notebooks, something on your phone. It's about finding them and getting them off that crumpled piece of paper and onto my computer.

I'm entirely of the mindset that when it comes to books, they've got to be paper.

I'm known for being quite gobby, but also, I'm quite old fashioned in the sense that I like writing letters.

I wrote 'Black Deutschland' very quickly one summer, probably because I had a lot of it in pieces and fragments sitting around over the years as false starts or notes.

I think I'm from the 18th century, not even the 19th. I don't even use a typewriter. I prefer longhand, and that's how I submit my manuscripts to my publishers.

My thinking process starts with my pen.

I'm writing all the time when I'm at home. When I'm on the road, I just get ideas, and I put it on my iPhone.

I write longhand; I make changes longhand, and I have an assistant who types it up. She lives 70 yards away. Every afternoon, I have a case I leave out on the porch, and she brings it back the next morning.

When you handwrite something, you're writing your most raw, pure thoughts. If you want to change it, then you have to mark it out, and people can see you laboring over that thought. I think even the act of hand, pen, and paper is much more intimate than with a computer screen.

I still like the physicality of papers.