Typewriter Quotes

146 quotes by 118 authors

I like the sound a typewriter makes. — Paul Auster
No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out… — Lynn Abbey
The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon. — Robert Benchley
I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter. — Ray Bradbury
The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me. — Ray Bradbury
They gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom. — Robin Ince
A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the… — Barbara Holland
I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and… — John Sayles
What a story that would make! How many men and women go through the same rivers, menaced by the same sharp clichÃ©s, the same jagged… — Richard Bach
I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said,… — John Sayles
Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop. — Red Smith
Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than the story. The… — Leonard Michaels
I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The… — Mark Twain
You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively.… — Anne Lamott
An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought. — Mignon McLaughlin
All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also… — Agatha Christie
A typical wine writer was once described as someone with a typewriter who was looking for his name in print, a free lunch, and a… — Frank J. Prial
I edit as I go. Especially when I go to commit it to paper. I prefer a typewriter even to a computer. I don't like… — John Prine
I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen… — Shelby Foote

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