Quotes About Handwriting

I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more creative than typing, and it's a more visual process for me - I can picture the entire scene in my head and am merely writing what I see.

Para percibir la distancia que hay entre lo divino y lo humano, basta comparar estos rudos símbolos trémulos que mi falible mano garabatea en la tapa de un libro, con las letras orgánicas del interior: puntuales, delicadas, negrísimas, inimitablemente simétricas.

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

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

Never lose an opportunity for seeing something beautiful for beauty is God s handwriting.

We lost handwriting and got Comic Sans in return. That's a very bad deal.

many extremely well-organized people have illegible handwriting

Poor Joanna's handwriting is rather noticeable?sprawls about all over the envelope like an inebriated spider.

A cheap envelope in an unformed handwriting, postmarked Hertfordshire.

The handwriting is on the wall: if you want to have your franchises viable, then you can't have a situation where New York and Chicago and Los Angeles are doing very, very well, and some other teams are, but, I would say, a significant percentage of the teams in our league are struggling financially.

The workings of the sensory systems are particularly baffling, because they can achieve far more sophisticated feats of pattern-recognition than the best and most expensive man-made machines; if this were not so, all typists would be redundant, superseded by speech-recognizing machines, or machines for reading handwriting.

Pages must be done longhand. The computer is fast—too fast for our purposes. Writing by computer gets you speed but not depth. Writing by computer is like driving a car at 85 mph. Everything is a blur. "Oh, my God, was that my exit?" Writing by hand is like going 35 mph. "Oh, look, here comes my exit. And look, it has a Sonoco station and a convenience store.

Her tiny and organized handwriting reminded me of the tidiness of her desk, as if she'd wanted to find in words the peace and safety that life hadn't wanted to grant her.

Irony, we want our handwriting to look like typed fonts, and our computer fonts to look like handwritten text.

Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him.

A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.

Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament.

Nothing," she said. "But I've seen better handwriting from animals without opposable thumbs.

Oh—and make sure you print, I [Bruce Wayne] added. If I recall, your handwriting's atrocious. He took a coaster from the table and scribbled a few notes on the back. Roman Sionis: The ladies don't complain when I give them my number. Bruce Wayne: Oh? They're old enough to read?

I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I think that's common among writers if they get cornered on something.

I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism.

When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.

Tolstoy's wife copied out the entire manuscript of War and Peace in longhand seven times.

She slams the trunk, walks back to the front seat to select one of his notebooks, not yet allowing herself to consider the reason she does this—to retain a personal record of his extinct handwriting.