'Forrest Gump' actor Tom Hanks is reported to have sealed a new book deal with publishing company Knopf-Doubleday on Monday, Nov. 3.

The publishing house confirmed that he will write stories that will be connected to photos of the 58-year old's typewriter collection, although the book's title, along with its release date hasn't been disclosed yet.

It's important to note that Hanks has some writing experience, besides his illustrious career as an actor. He was actually a screenwriter, having co-written the romantic comedy 'Larry Crowne' starring Julia Roberts and himself.

Z News reports that Hanks' passion for typewriters is well known, as he co-developed a typewriter app for the iPad called Hanx Writer which mimics the motion and sound of writing on a typewriter.

Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks, who recently published a fictional story in New Yorker Magazine titled 'Alan Bean Plus Four', plans to take his love for collecting antique writing machines to a whole new level by taking on a different role as a writer himself.

"I've been collecting typewriters for no particular reason since 1978 - both manual and portable machines dating from the thirties to the nineties," the Oscar-winning actor said in a statement to TIME

"The stories are not about the typewriters themselves, but rather, the stories are something that might have been written on one of them," Hanks added.

"I ended up just having them around because they're beautiful works of art, and I ended up collecting them from every ridiculous source possible," Hanks said in a statement in NPR.

"It really kicked off probably when I had a little excess cash. But better to spend it on $50 typewriters than some of the other things you can blow show-business money on," he continued.

The real question is, will Tom Hanks go as far as writing his collection of short stories using a typewriter?

Nicholas Lezard of The Guardian, having read Hanks' excerpt in the New Yorker, adds that "typewriters make your writing more honest. With no delete key at your disposal, you are meant to weigh your words carefully before committing to them."