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

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

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'm very primitive; I write with a pen.

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.

To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she alone is in charge of that pencil, and responsible, she and she alone, for what it writes on that paper.

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