I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Some professional writers write everyday no matter what and perhaps that's the way it should be done, but it's not the way… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When you're all alone out there, on the end of the typewriter, with each new story a new appraisal by the world… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures, so that the paper seemed a… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
I'm not typing. I write only by longhand. I've always written first drafts by hand and then once I was into a… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Forward steps are made by giving up old armor because words are built into you - in the soft typewriter of the… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I beg of you, you who could and should be bearing and rearing a family: Wives, come home from the typewriter, the… — Spencer W. Kimball 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
Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was,… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I'm an empress. I wear an apron. My typewriter writes. It didn't break the way it warned. Even crazy, I'm as nice… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter. — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...) — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter. — Alger Hiss Copy Share Image
I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The secret of successful writing lies in striking the right keys on the typewriter. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter. — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
I don't use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I'm a horizontal writer. I think better when I'm lying… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special. — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
I am not lazy. I am on the amphetamine of the soul. I am, each day, typing out the God my typewriter… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
You can lie to your wife or your boss, but you cannot lie to your typewriter. Sooner or later you must reveal… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
Much as I like owning a Rolls-Royce, I could do without it. What I could not do without is a typewriter, a… — John O'Hara Copy Share Image
His [Sam Fuller] self-discipline was amazing. No matter what happened, he'd always go out to his Royal Upright typewriter and just keep… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all — what do they want, a crowd looking over their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't consider writing a quiet, closet act. I consider it a real physical act. When I'm home writing on the typewriter,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than… — Buchi Emecheta Copy Share Image
Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I write exclusively using computers. Pens and typewriters can fsck right off - I wrote my first half million words in my… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I have had the irreplaceable opportunity of learning my profession with the proper tools, the most important of which is not a… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
One thing I'd do was put a great writer's book beside the typewriter and... type out a beautiful and moving paragraph... and… — Gina Berriault Copy Share Image
When you make the film, there's a big difference between when you're in your own home at the typewriter, and when you're… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
It took time to learn that the hard thing about writing is to let the story write itself, while one sits at… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
When forced to leave my house for an extended period of time, I take my typewriter with me, and together we endure… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a different. Not change the world exactly,… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Listen closely. There’s a remote possibility that you might learn something: First, I don’t give a damn if my work is commercial… — John Fante Copy Share Image
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