Damon Galgut Quotes

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

Write . . . write . . . pencil . . . paper.

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.

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 don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.

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've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.

Writing has always had that tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.

I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There's a shoe box in my closet filled with these notebooks, each riddled with notes and impressions, ideas, schemes, and soup recipes.

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

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

I write in Urdu and everything is written by my hand.

I have notebooks all over the place. I write little stories for my cabaret.

For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.

I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.

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

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.

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 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.

Writing by hand is a way of letting mystery into my writing. But I'm constantly trying to figure out how to do this job. It's a work in progress.

My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed... I would work in this way when I was out in the crowds, then put the stuff together at home.

A pen connects you to the paper. It definitely matters.

I use a computer, but before I begin each new book I keep a notebook. I write down everything that comes to mind during that period before I actually begin. It might take months or weeks. That notebook is my security blanket so that I never have to face a blank screen (or blank page). But I print out often and my best ideas usually come with a pencil in my hand.

When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'

The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.