"I can't imagine ever writing anything of any kind on a machine. I never tried to write either poetry or prose on a typewriter. I like to do it on useless paper, scrap paper, because it's of no importance. If I put a nice new sheet of white paper down in front of myself and took up a new, nicely sharpened anything, it would be instant inhibition, I think. 'So now what?' I would think and I would sit there -- so now what? -- for quite a long time. But if it's something, if I need somewhere to write it down it will be on the back of an envelope, or something like that. Then it's okay. It's just to keep it there so I can find out where it goes from there." -- W. S. Merwin (b. 1927-09-30; awarded Pulitzer prize for poetry in 1971 and 2009), on the PBS television program, Bill Moyers Journal, 2009-06-29 [ transcript] [ video]