Typewriter Quotes

146 quotes by 118 authors

He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was… — A. E. Hotchner
I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking. — Alistair Cooke
I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter. — Caryl Rivers
Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to the… — Jeff MacNelly
I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen in school notebooks.… — Charles de Lint
Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running. — Gene Fowler
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens… — Graham Greene
I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter. — Joan Didion
I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single… — David Duchovny
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. — Ernest Hemingway
I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text. — Charles Krauthammer
I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do… — David Mamet
A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it. — Marshall McLuhan
If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps… — Alan Moore
When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought… — Joyce Carol Oates
At the typewriter you find out who you are. — Tom Robbins
There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by… — Anne Rice
I'd love to maybe try writing. I don't know if I'd publish anything, but as a hobby, it's really nice. I bought a typewriter, and… — Emma Roberts
I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part.… — Salman Rushdie

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