'Those messy little notebooks'

'Learning how to type does not make you a writer. It was one of the biggest disappointments of my life when I found that I couldn't compose at a typewriter. You see so many movies in which pages fly out of a writer's machine and novels pile up next to them. I'm in my late 30s now and I'm still working in those messy little notebooks I had when I was six.'

Donna Tartt in the Observer