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I had an old typewriter and a big idea. -- J. K. Rowling
I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon. -- Raymond Chandler
The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon. -- Robert Benchley
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. -- Ernest Hemingway
Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special. -- R. L. Stine
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. -- David Gerrold
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. -- Arthur Eddington
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'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
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
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
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A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. -- Douglas Adams
Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies in all the ointments, the daily woes that a man endures -- take them, George, they're yours! -- Ogden Nash
In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare out of the window. Nowadays, because of the marvels of convergent technology, the thing you type on and the window you stare out of are now the same thing. -- Douglas Adams
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
A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys. -- Barbara Holland
If I had had to write only about imaginary people, I would have had to close up my typewriter. I wrote about my life in less and less disguise as I grew older, and finally with no disguise - except the disguise we create for ourselves, which is self-deception. -- William Maxwell
A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down. -- E. B. White
If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum. The chance of their doing so is decidedly more favourable than the chance of the molecules returning to one half of the vessel. -- Arthur Eddington
People die from typewriters falling on their heads. -- Jonathan Davis
You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell? -- Jenkin Lloyd Jones
I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas." -- Olivia De Havilland
I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas. -- Olivia De Havilland
We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to. -- Thomas Pynchon
I wasn't prepared for this big room with clattering typewriters and teletype printers. You could hardly hear yourself think. -- Ray Kroc
I'm kind of a Luddite myself. I've got a bunch of typewriters at home. I'm a big fan of old technology. -- Kerry Bishe
If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters. -- William Feather
There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The iPhone is not and never was a phone. It is a pocket-sized computer that obviates the phone. The iPhone is to cell phones what the Mac was to typewriters. -- John Gruber
The manufacturers of mechanical typewriters believed that they had developed sufficiently when they introduced electric typewriters. Then came the PC, and the deeply traditional makers of typewriters disappeared from the market. -- Norbert Reithofer

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