Great writers Quote by Allen Ginsberg Download Open image “We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter” — Allen Ginsberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Great writers Typewriters Writing
I am a terrible, terrible typist. I could not have been a writer in the age of typewriters. — Lisa Jewell 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 and paper.… — Colson Whitehead 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 in the… — J. B. Priestley 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 job of… — William Feather Copy Share Image
“There's nothing wrong with this. Other than sentimentality, the typewriter offers nothing special to the act of writing. What an author uses to write… — Todd Michael Cox Copy Share Image
There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked... who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkansas… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“I'm with you in Rockland in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea-journey on the highway across America in tears to the door… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“Slaves of Plastic! Leather-shoe chino-pants prisoners! Haircut junkies! Dacron-shiffers!” — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I was putting on a stiff upper lip and trying to fulfill the obligations I thought were demanded of me, taking over my father's… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“with my fucking suave manners and knowitall, eyes, and mind full of fantasy - the Me! that horror that keeps me conscious, in this… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air,… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The desire to have power dissolves. The desire to dominate people for love dissolves. On the other hand, it's a relief to realize you… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“Central Intelligence cutting Meo opium fields! China Lobby copping poppies in Burma! How long this Addict government support our oil-burner matter-habit” — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience. — Leonard Bishop Copy Share Image
Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
The blog is certainly another tool for writers out there to break their way in. But being a blogger does not make you a… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
It's really hard to write a screenplay, it's nauseating. All those great writers that tried to write screenplays, they couldn't do it, most of… — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
Intellectuals of [Albert] Camus' age who had previously disliked him now appreciate him. And at that point we come back to literature, and it's… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really… — Guy Clark Copy Share Image
Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The measure of a great writer is not how many weeks his books spend on the best-seller lists, but how many years his books… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image