I am a terrible, terrible typist. I could not have been a writer in the age of typewriters. — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder - and turn quickly to my typewriter. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter. — Caryl Rivers Copy Share Image
They gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom. — Robin Ince Copy Share Image
I had one typewriter for 50 years, but I have bought seven computers in six years. I suppose that's why Bill Gates… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The more I hear of ban-the-gun legislation forming in Washington, and the more I hear it advocated from the editorial pulpit of… — Patrick Bedard Copy Share Image
I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
I'm sitting in my office trying to squeeze a story from my head. It is that kind of morning when you feel… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
My boyfriend got me a computer three years ago. I'll admit it does make things a lot easier. When I was working… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I used to go round to Aunt Mimi's house and John would be at the typewriter, which was fairly unusual in Liverpool.… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers.… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I was a radioman when I first went into the Navy, so I learned to type by taking Morse code. So I… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I used to feel guilty about spending morning hours working on a book; about fleeing to the brook in the afternoon. It… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Ink and paper are as cheap as sand or water, almost. No board of directors has to convene in order to decide… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I edit as I go. Especially when I go to commit it to paper. I prefer a typewriter even to a computer.… — John Prine Copy Share Image
History shows us a lot of things. It shows why the Lord's Prayer includes the supplication: "And lead us not into temptation."… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
There was a time when most people had a choice between two kinds of personal communication, handwriting or using a typewriter. Today,… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
Salinger is such a terrific writer; he did so many great things. He is one of those writers that I still reread,… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Most writers I know have switched to word processors. I haven't but I'm very curious about why people like it so much.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Like Paul Kraston said, all I ask in life is a water bed, a TV and a typewriter. Well, I'll just have… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Take a woman talking, purging herself with rhymes, drumming words out like a typewriter, planting words in you like grass seed. You'll… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking. — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I wasn't prepared for this big room with clattering typewriters and teletype printers. You could hardly hear yourself think. — Ray Kroc Copy Share Image
While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane. — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk… — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
Bless all useful objects, the spoons made of bone, the mattress I cook my dreams upon, the typewriter that is my church… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the… — William Feather Copy Share Image
