For me, form is something I locate in the process of writing the poems. What I mean is, I start scribbling, and… — Matthew Zapruder 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
No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
I write fiction longhand. That's not so much about rejecting technology as being unable to write fiction on a computer for some… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
For your information, a good novel can change the world. Keep that in mind before you attempt to sit down at a… — John Fante 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
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
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
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
I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter. — Joan Didion 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
The poet’s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. We’re hunched… — Eileen Myles 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
If you want to be a writer, all you need is a piece of paper and a pencil, and I had a… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
The best kind of writing, and the biggest thrill in writing, is to suddenly read a line from your typewriter that you… — Larry L. King Copy Share Image
In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare out of the window. Nowadays, because of… — Douglas Adams 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
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
Writer's block is real. It happens. Some days you sit down at the old typewriter, put your fingers on the keys, and… — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
The secret of successful writing lies in striking the right keys on the typewriter. — Evan Esar 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
Writing, even though it's hard work, is really a joy when you get these characters to come alive. It's hard to trace… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
