Natalie Goldberg Quotes

I do write my manuscripts by hand, in pencil on legal pads. Then they are typed on a word processor by my typist.

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

I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages.

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

I always do my draft in long hand because even the ink is part of the flow.

You get attached to the way you write, and I'm attached to notebooks. That's where I really write the plays. Just two or three pages at a time, then I transfer to the typewriter and rewrite while I type.

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 write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.

I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India.

I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning writing the ending, the last 100 pages approximately, and then part of the morning revising the beginning. So the style of the novel has a consistency.

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

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

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

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

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.

The way that I write speeches is to do bits and pieces and then knit them together

You should always go through the first draft of a book all at once, I think, to get the best results. You can take time off after the first draft and come back to it fresh.

I write everything out in longhand in one fast go. And then I throw out the first few and start over again. By the end of the first draft, the whole thing's messy and disgusting and horrible, but you really understand the foundational stuff.

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.

You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time.

I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.