“i heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works… — Bill Hirst 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
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
You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It's good to be able to deal with it [anger] somehow other than drinking, fighting, crashing cars, hitting your kid, your wife,… — Henry Rollins 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
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
My younger daughter told me recently that when she was a child she thought the typewriter was a toy that I went… — William Maxwell 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
My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He… — Shakira 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
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 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 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 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
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
Gazing at the typewriter in moments of desperation I console myself with three thoughts. Alcohol at six, dinner at eight, and to… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part,… — Salman Rushdie 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
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
Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that… — Alex Haley 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
I've had a lot of typewriters that I've had relationships with; one still has a piece of masking tape that says "$8"… — Eddie Vedder 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