“I’ve never written directly onto a typewriter or computer. The great advantage of writing longhand is that you are crossing out and revising all the time as you go. I remember when a friend of mine first showed me her word processor. She was in raptures about it. But all I could think was, The problem with this is that it looks too finished, too soon. It looks perfect when of course it isn’t. There’s also a sort of extraordinary intimacy in looking at work written out in longhand.”

–PENELOPE LIVELY

Dame Penelope Margaret Lively DBE FRSL (born 1933) is a British writer of fiction for both children and adults. Lively has won both the Booker Prize and the Carnegie Medal for British children’s books. Wikipedia