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My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.

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

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 the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.

I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.

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.

If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I've never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page.