Handwriting

“I have a real aversion to machines. I write with a pen. Then I read it to someone who writes it onto the computer. What are those computer letters made of, anyway? Light? Too insubstantial. Paper, you can feel it. A pen. There’s a connection. A pen goes exactly at your speed, whereas that machine jumps. And then, that machine is waiting for you, just humming, ‘Uh-huh, yes?’” 

—Fran Lebowitz, humorist and writer, “A Humorist at Work,” The Paris Review, 1993.

• Editorial Comment: Writer’s Block: likely result of an impatient keyboard.

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