Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your…

Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

— Red Smith

“There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Writing is easy. All you have to do is sit down at the typewriter, cut open a vein, and bleed.”

— Red Smith

The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.

— Paddy Chayefsky

In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare out of the window. Nowadays, because of the marvels…

— Douglas Adams

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

When I was younger, I dreaded having to write. I would find every possible excuse not to sit down at the typewriter (this was…

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

I like the idea of being a novelist. I picture myself on the coast, the wind in my hair, horses galloping around me as…

— Sara Cox

Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not happen. So,…

— Charles Bukowski

Usually, the way I write is to sit down at a typewriter after that year or so of what passes for thinking, and I…

— Edward Albee

I think I sit down to the typewriter when it's time to sit down to the typewriter. That isn't to suggest that when I…

— Edward Albee

When I sit down at the typewriter, I write. Someone once asked me if I had a fixed routine before I start, like setting…

— Isaac Asimov

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that…

— Barry Lopez

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…

— Nikki Giovanni

I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait…

— Wole Soyinka