Maggie Haberman Quotes

Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.

I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.

Each year, in my quaint efforts to send out paper holiday cards with personal messages, I probably discard one for every three I actually manage to put in the mail. The reason is that my handwriting is now less legible than it was when I was in the second grade.

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

There's something special about writing by hand, writing with a fountain pen, and there's something special about writing into a book, to take a blank book and turn it into an actual book.

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

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.

I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards.

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.

I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting.

I'm always writing, even when I'm not at my desk. I write on my hands. I used to write on my kids' hands, too, but they don't let me any more. When I'm driving I sometimes write all the way up my arms.

The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.

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

I write in longhand and assemble lots of notes, and then I try to collate them into a coherent chronology. It's like groping along in the dark. I like writing and find it challenging, but I don't find it easy.

I remember looking at James Joyce's journals. It was just amazing - it looked like ants had written on the page. So much writing on one page, every corner of the page was filled. Some of the lines were underlined in yellow or blue or red. A lot of color, intense writing.

I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to hunt for words when I speak, and I have the same difficulty when writing.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections.

Let's face it, writing is hell.

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.

Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.

I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don't really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close friends, and they become more and more logical. I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.

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.