Typewriter Quotes

146 quotes by 118 authors

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy! — Allen Ginsberg
What should I do?" "Throw up in your typewriter every morning." "Yeah." "Clean up every noon. — Ray Bradbury
I'm sitting in my office trying to squeeze a story from my head. It is that kind of morning when you feel like melting the… — Richard Matheson
Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at. — Anne Sexton
When you're all alone out there, on the end of the typewriter, with each new story a new appraisal by the world of whether you… — Harlan Ellison
Do some living and get yourself a typewriter. — Charles Bukowski
We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter — Allen Ginsberg
The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a different. Not change the world exactly, just the bit… — David Nicholls
While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane. — Billy Collins
take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning — Charles Bukowski
I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a half-finished canvas all… — Jane Yolen
Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter. — Daniel Handler
People on the outside think there's something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come… — Harlan Ellison
I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop. — Clarence Budington Kelland
My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a… — Alice Walker
In my fairly disorganized life, yellow stickies are too easily lost, and as for software, I try to avoid using my computer as much more… — Julia Glass
I was living in a large apartment with no furniture, just a typewriter, and because I had nothing else to do with my time, it… — Simon Van Booy
In the 1980s, in the communist Eastern Germany, if you owned a typewriter, you had to register it with the government. You had to register… — Mikko Hypponen
I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten. — Octavia E. Butler
I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought… — Gabrielle Zevin

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