Typewriter Quotes

146 quotes by 118 authors

Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there's a big… — Alex Haley
My mitochondria comprise a very large proportion of me. I cannot do the calculation, but I suppose there is almost as much of them in… — Lewis Thomas
When you write for a living and you can't do anything else, you know that sooner or later that the deadline is going to come… — Hunter S. Thompson
It took time to learn that the hard thing about writing is to let the story write itself, while one sits at the typewriter and… — Richard Bach
A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body… — Douglas Adams
In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government… — Matt Blunt
The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter. — Paddy Chayefsky
I am aware that a computer canâ€™t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter. — Charles Bukowski
My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve. So I never… — Ray Bradbury
For your information, a good novel can change the world. Keep that in mind before you attempt to sit down at a typewriter. Never waste… — John Fante
My younger daughter told me recently that when she was a child she thought the typewriter was a toy that I went into my room… — William Maxwell
If I had had to write only about imaginary people, I would have had to close up my typewriter. I wrote about my life in… — William Maxwell
I had an old typewriter and a big idea. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol,… — Shakira
I have a love/hate relationship with just about all technology in my life. My first typewriter in particular. I had a helluva time putting new… — Eric Stoltz
On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was… — Dorothy Parker
I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to… — Wole Soyinka
Much as I like owning a Rolls-Royce, I could do without it. What I could not do without is a typewriter, a supply of yellow… — John O'Hara
I write by ear. I tried writing with the typewriter, but I found it too unwieldy — Groucho Marx
It took me thirty-six years; and, in some fifty stories, ranging in length from short-shorts to novels, I think I must have touched, in one… — Isaac Asimov

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