Wayne Dyer Quotes

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

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

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

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 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 can write anywhere. But I don't use a computer, and I could never write on a laptop. I hate the sound of computers; it's too dull, like it's not doing anything for you.

I hate typing but I love to write manually.

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 write in longhand on yellow legal pads.

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 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.

There are times where I would keep three typewriters on a table, and I'd have three complete thoughts going. With computers, you make folders, files - I don't know about those things. I have sheaves of paper polluted with words and paragraphs. I found it a good tool for me. And it keeps your hands strong for guitar playing.

I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I cross out a lot - I'm not writing in stone tablets, it's just ink on paper. I don't feel comfortable without a pen or a pencil in my hand. I can't think with my fingers on the keyboard. Words are generated for me by gripping the pen, and pressing the point on the paper.

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

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

I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a fountain pen, a Parker fountain pen, and I loved it, and I've never liked writing anything with pencils or ball-points.

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.

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.