Typewriter Quotes

146 quotes by 118 authors

As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled… — Jo Nesbo
Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to… — Anne Rivers Siddons
My art school rejection letter arrived as a cold manila fist that closed around my fragile hopes ... The fear was practically edible. Nothing would… — Grant Morrison
A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to be… — Elwyn Brooks White
When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending you can use… — Andy Rooney
The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again. — Pablo Neruda
When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I… — Barry Lopez
Because of the realities of human nature, perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter. — Richard M. Nixon
I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter. — Francine Pascal
Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special. — R L Stine
If you're going to be a writer you should sit down and write in the morning, and keep it up all day, every day. Charles… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old,… — Gabrielle Zevin
I seat myself at the typewriter and hope, and lurk. — Mignon G. Eberhart
If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one… — James A. Michener
I have had the irreplaceable opportunity of learning my profession with the proper tools, the most important of which is not a pencil or a… — Moss Hart
I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another… — Buchi Emecheta
I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences. — Roger Zelazny
I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I… — Winston Graham
Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale Hill. These were its assets: a tiny white van, two desks, two… — Alexander McCall Smith
Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies… — Ogden Nash

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