You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at... The wall of a museum - a canvas -… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The image of the reporter as a nicotine-stained Quixote, slugging back Scotch while skewering city hall with an expose ripped out of… — Paul Gray Copy Share Image
I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the… — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
I don't like to see mistakes on the typewriter. I like a perfect script. On the typewriter I will sometimes leave a… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The reason I was able to give up smoking was because of the computer. You couldn't lean a cigarette on a computer,… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some,… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
You can imagine what it was like for me to actually be sitting in a room with matching typewriters, working under the… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
What we, thanks to Jung, call "synchronicity" (coincidence on steroids), Buddhists have long known as "the interpenetration of realities." Whether it's a… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“In 1973 the companies and individuals later to be identified with the advent of the personal computer were otherwise engaged. IBM was… — Michael A. Hiltzik Copy Share Image
There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
It took me thirty-six years; and, in some fifty stories, ranging in length from short-shorts to novels, I think I must have… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Usually, the way I write is to sit down at a typewriter after that year or so of what passes for thinking,… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
What a story that would make! How many men and women go through the same rivers, menaced by the same sharp clichés,… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
There are times where I would keep three typewriters on a table, and I'd have three complete thoughts going. With computers, you… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
People on the outside think there's something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
I'm not superstitious in my normal daily life but I get that way about writing, even though I know it's all bullshit.… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I think being a writer was a crappy job when you just had typewriters. It was crappy when we just had ink… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I write on the typewriter. I like it because I like the feeling of making something with my hands. I like pressing… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
“It was soul-destroying work, apt to turn anyone cynical, for the sad, awful truth was that there was hardly any evidence at… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
When I have a first draft, I have a floor under my feet that I can walk on. Then, especially with the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I have two vintage typewriters. One just about works and the other hasn't a hope in hell, bless it. But they're both… — Matt Roper Copy Share Image
The manufacturers of mechanical typewriters believed that they had developed sufficiently when they introduced electric typewriters. Then came the PC, and the… — Norbert Reithofer Copy Share Image
If I had my choice, I would be writing by typewriter. I worked on newspapers for 10 years. I typed with the… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
I use an IBM Thinkpad. I just use it like a typewriter, but when I started using it in 1987, I thought… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If I had had to write only about imaginary people, I would have had to close up my typewriter. I wrote about… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I think that's why I've lasted this long because I love everything I make fun of! I make fun of myself first!… — John Waters Copy Share Image
You get attached to the way you write, and I'm attached to notebooks. That's where I really write the plays. Just two… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
When I sit down at the typewriter, I write. Someone once asked me if I had a fixed routine before I start,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
There are moments when I cannot bear this unremitting consciousness. It knows only itself. Awake, I am in a continuum with my… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
