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I like the sound a typewriter makes. -- Paul Auster
I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit. -- P. G. Wodehouse
A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it. -- Marshall McLuhan
I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter. -- Ray Bradbury
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. -- Ernest Hemingway
Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running. -- Gene Fowler
I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter. -- Alger Hiss
The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me. -- Ray Bradbury
I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen. -- Steve Wozniak
No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge. -- Lynn Abbey
In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age. -- Matt Blunt
I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper. -- Shelby Foote
I was living in a large apartment with no furniture, just a typewriter, and because I had nothing else to do with my time, it made me take my writing seriously. -- Simon Van Booy
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. -- Graham Greene
Something mystical happens to every writer who goes to the Masters for the first time, some sort of emotional experience that results in a search party having to be sent out to recover his typewriter from a clump of azaleas. -- Dan Jenkins
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. -- Tennessee Williams
I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. -- J. K. Rowling
My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me. -- Alice Walker
If you're a photographer, they give you a camera. If you're a writer, they give you a typewriter. If you're an umpire, they give you an unseen object and they call it a strike zone, and nobody seems to agree with you no matter what you call. -- Doug Harvey
You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that. -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that. -- Alan Moore
When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: 'Oh, you're working on it right now?' -- John Sayles
In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this. -- Salman Rushdie
Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were about kindergarten age. From the start, they recognized in each other "an apartness," as Capote later expressed it; and both loved reading. When Lee's father gave them an old Underwood typewriter, they began writing original stories together. -- Charles J. Shields
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. -- Paul Auster
Do some living and get yourself a typewriter. -- Charles Bukowski
One person plus one typewriter constitutes a movement. -- Pauli Murray
I had an old typewriter and a big idea. -- J. K. Rowling
At the typewriter you find out who you are. -- Tom Robbins
You don't ask a writer what typewriter he uses. -- Man Ray
We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter -- Allen Ginsberg
I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines. -- Fran Lebowitz
I seat myself at the typewriter and hope, and lurk. -- Mignon G. Eberhart
Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter. -- Daniel Handler
Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon. -- Raymond Chandler
When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend. -- Theodore White
I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter. -- Howard Rheingold
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The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon. -- Robert Benchley
I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter. -- Joan Didion
The secret of successful writing lies in striking the right keys on the typewriter. -- Evan Esar
I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop. -- Clarence Budington Kelland
I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter. -- Francine Pascal
I write by ear. I tried writing with the typewriter, but I found it too unwieldy -- Groucho Marx
I am aware that a computer canâ??t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter. -- Charles Bukowski
WHEN YOU LEAVE YOUR TYPEWRITER YOU LEAVE YOUR MACHINE GUN AND THE RATS COME POURING THROUGH. -- Charles Bukowski
What should I do?" "Throw up in your typewriter every morning." "Yeah." "Clean up every noon. -- Ray Bradbury
I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002. -- Beck
For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter. -- Alec Soth
Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter. -- Gerald Brenan
While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane. -- Billy Collins
Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special. -- R. L. Stine
Standing on a ledge again. Everyone laughs at dancing monkey with the typewriter. Not for long, though. -- Neil Simon
Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder - and turn quickly to my typewriter. -- Sydney J. Harris
I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking. -- Alistair Cooke
In the future the way that Whittaker Chambers was able to carry out forgery by typewriter will be disclosed. -- Alger Hiss
They gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom. -- Robin Ince
There was a typewriter buried alive in that horse, the one I road to get out of the flood. -- Buddy Wakefield
The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy! -- Allen Ginsberg
I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too. -- David Mamet
I sometimes mistake my typewriter for my teeth, because the more I bite the more my column will be read. -- Sheilah Graham Westbrook
The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again. -- Pablo Neruda
I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter... -- Larry Wall
Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop. -- Red Smith
It's very simple... this banging around with a camera and typewriter as a business is just one helluva lot of fun. -- David Douglas Duncan
If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter. -- William S. Burroughs
Because of the realities of human nature, perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter. -- Richard M. Nixon
That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it. -- Charles Kuralt
take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning -- Charles Bukowski
I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences. -- Roger Zelazny
I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter. -- Caryl Rivers
The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter. -- Paddy Chayefsky
You can write a letter with a typewriter, a pencil, or a crayon. What you have to say is the important thing. -- Paul Strisik
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? -- Woody Allen
I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms. -- Nora Ephron
I don't use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I'm a horizontal writer. I think better when I'm lying down. -- Truman Capote
I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text. -- Charles Krauthammer
An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at. -- Anne Sexton
Take a woman talking, purging herself with rhymes, drumming words out like a typewriter, planting words in you like grass seed. You'll move off. -- Anne Sexton
When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life. -- Martin Amis
I am not lazy. I am on the amphetamine of the soul. I am, each day, typing out the God my typewriter believes in. -- Anne Sexton
I began by doing book reviews on the typewriter and then went over to short stories on the machine, meanwhile sticking to pencil for poetry. -- Conrad Aiken
I love to photograph the tools of one's trade: Duncan Grant's paintbrushes, the typewriter of Herman Hesse, or even my own guitar, a 1957 Fender Duo-Sonic. -- Patti Smith
Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it. -- Lillian Hellman
I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten. -- Octavia E. Butler
There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself. -- Anne Rice
I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer. -- Ray Bradbury
If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that. -- Susan Sontag
You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk away the next time. -- James N. Frey
I'm an empress. I wear an apron. My typewriter writes. It didn't break the way it warned. Even crazy, I'm as nice as a chocolate bar. -- Anne Sexton
There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act. -- Tom Robbins
The best kind of writing, and the biggest thrill in writing, is to suddenly read a line from your typewriter that you didnt know was in you. -- Larry L. King
All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable. -- Agatha Christie
When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don't have an audience; I have a set of standards. -- Don DeLillo
You can lie to your wife or your boss, but you cannot lie to your typewriter. Sooner or later you must reveal your true self in your pages. -- Leon Uris
and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it -- Nikki Giovanni
Bless all useful objects, the spoons made of bone, the mattress I cook my dreams upon, the typewriter that is my church with an altar of keys always waiting. -- Anne Sexton
Gazing at the typewriter in moments of desperation I console myself with three thoughts. Alcohol at six, dinner at eight, and to be immortal you've got to be dead. -- Gyles Brandreth
... photography is just a medium. It's like a typewriter. Photography as an art doesn't interest me an awful lot; as a participant, though I like to look at it. -- Ezra Stoller
I had one typewriter for 50 years, but I have bought seven computers in six years. I suppose that's why Bill Gates is rich, and Underwood is out of business. -- Andy Rooney
When the typewriter stops in a New York office everybody's embarrassed; men start to quarrel or to make love to the stenographer or drop lighted cigarettes in the wastebasket. -- John Dos Passos
I have a love/hate relationship with just about all technology in my life. My first typewriter in particular. I had a helluva time putting new ribbon on it. -- Eric Stoltz
My mother wrote poetry when I was young - I have an early memory of the sound of her typewriter - and my father told me inventive bedtime stories. -- Eula Biss
I have a love/hate relationship with just about all technology in my life. My first typewriter in particular. I had a helluva time putting new ribbon on it." -- Eric Stoltz
I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to go to a typewriter and write poetry. -- Patti Smith
I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter. -- Patrick Carman
Like Paul Kraston said, all I ask in life is a water bed, a TV and a typewriter. Well, I'll just have an ordinary bed, a TV and a guitar. -- John Lennon
I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood. -- Wole Soyinka
The out-dated imagery of sitting over a dusty typewriter staring at blank pages for years is a fallacy and probably designed to keep you from living up to your fullest potential. -- Kytka Hilmar-Jezek
Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. -- Gabrielle Zevin
His [Sam Fuller] self-discipline was amazing. No matter what happened, he'd always go out to his Royal Upright typewriter and just keep working on his stories, his "yarns" as he called them. -- Curtis Hanson
I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette. -- Frederik Pohl
As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea. -- Jo Nesbo
My younger daughter told me recently that when she was a child she thought the typewriter was a toy that I went into my room and closed the door and played with. -- William Maxwell
I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel. -- William Saroyan
When I was about 12, I spent the summer writing four plays on my dad's old typewriter for a school play competition. And I wrote little comic bits at secondary school and at university. -- Rory Kinnear
For your information, a good novel can change the world. Keep that in mind before you attempt to sit down at a typewriter. Never waste time on something you don't believe in yourself. -- John Fante
Whenever I try to do anything on a typewriter, it's like having this machine between me and the words; what comes out is not quite what would come out if I were scribbling. -- Chinua Achebe

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