Writing Preference Quotes

I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.

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

I used to draw and illustrate, but I don't do that anymore because I just like to write. I like to leave the illustrations to actual professional illustrators.

I used to type, but now, typing or working with a computer, I get a stiff neck. So I prefer writing longhand.

I'm a writer more than I am a talker.

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.

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 hate typing but I love to write manually.

I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer a visual medium.

I play and I've played in heavy bands, but when I write for myself, I don't particularly feel like writing huge rock riffs. It just doesn't work for me and my voice.

I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn't write no one would want me to talk anyway.

Being able to create your own work, being able to indulge your own fantasies is so much better than journalism, so much more fulfilling than journalism, to me, that as long as I can continue to write fiction, I shall.

I like how I write better than how I speak.

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.

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

You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.

I just feel like there's a better mind-to-pen connection for me than a mind-to-keyboard connection.

I never work on a computer. I can't write on a computer. It's just not possible for me to do that.

I like writing my own stuff. If a book came along I would maybe do that.

I know the benefits of having a really great improv show are amazing because it was this one rare and fleeting thing that was incredible, but the risk just didn't appeal to me. I liked the control of sitting down and writing things.

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

My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.

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

I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working.