Electric Quote by Andy Rooney

It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the…

— Elmore Leonard

I had an old typewriter and a big idea.

— J. K. Rowling

I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines.

— Fran Lebowitz

Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years…

— Gabrielle Zevin

I can't imagine ever writing anything of any kind on a machine. I never tried to write either poetry or prose on a typewriter.…

— W. S. Merwin

I'm kind of a Luddite myself. I've got a bunch of typewriters at home. I'm a big fan of old technology.

— Kerry Bishe

I use an IBM Thinkpad. I just use it like a typewriter, but when I started using it in 1987, I thought I won't…

— Joan Didion

I have two vintage typewriters. One just about works and the other hasn't a hope in hell, bless it. But they're both beautiful, and…

— Matt Roper

You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.

— Man Ray

I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.

— Alger Hiss

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 down.

— Truman Capote

“The typewriter is neat and compact and sturdy and blue, just the right machine to pound out a missive of love. When you strike…

— Yvette Walker