Elmore Leonard Quotes

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 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.

A pen on paper is the ideal way for me. I am not really very comfortable with machines; I never learned to type very well.

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

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

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

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

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 love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If you have a notebook and a nice pen you can go off somewhere, you can write that's solar powered. You can drop it or get it wet and pretty much all of your work will continue to be there. If you suddenly decide to look up a word or check a reference you will not look up four hours later, blinking, finding yourself somehow in the middle of an Ebay auction you never had any plans to be part of.

Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you start writing, and I can't really see it. I feel like the words are much more naked in pencil, on a notebook. I feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather than if I have a keyboard. I tend to add more in the margins. 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 really love.

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.

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'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.

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.

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 still use felt tip pens for my notes, on a white board that I carry around with me. I am not into the computer technology - you can say that quite safely.

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

I used to type, but now, typing or working with a computer, I get a stiff neck. So I prefer writing longhand.

I hate typing but I love to write manually.

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.

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