Typewriter Quotes

146 quotes by 118 authors

When you consider all the writers who never even had a machine. Who would have given an eyeball for a good typewriter. Any typewriter. All… — Sam Shepard
You donâ€™t ask a writer what typewriter he uses. — Man Ray
My Panasonic typewriter can make graphs. It types in four different colors. — Heather O'Rourke
I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter. — Alger Hiss
The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has to be exciting,… — Ray Bradbury
I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter… — Frederik Pohl
Listen closely. Thereâ€™s a remote possibility that you might learn something: First, I donâ€™t give a damn if my work is commercial or notâ€¦Iâ€™m the… — John Fante
This is the same problem I have with digital photography. The potential is always remarkable. But the medium never settles. Each year there is a… — Alec Soth
For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter. — Alec Soth
There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a… — Agatha Christie
I beg of you, you who could and should be bearing and rearing a family: Wives, come home from the typewriter, the laundry, the nursing,… — Spencer W. Kimball
The poetâ€™s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. Weâ€™re hunched and weaving over… — Eileen Myles
You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of… — Tom Robbins
You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk away the next… — James N. Frey
When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, heâ€™s nobodyâ€™s friend. — Theodore White
I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and… — William Saroyan
A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying ï¬rst a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible.… — Marvin Minsky
The secret of successful writing lies in striking the right keys on the typewriter. — Evan Esar
If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an… — Arthur Eddington

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