Best Typewriters Sayings
152 Typewriters quotes by 125 unique authors
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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
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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
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If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making…
— William Feather
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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
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If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
— Arthur Eddington
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It's good to be able to deal with it [anger] somehow other than drinking, fighting, crashing cars, hitting your kid, your wife, your husband, your…
— Henry Rollins
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The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.
— Paddy Chayefsky
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There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works…
— Ian Hart
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I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter.
— Charles Bukowski
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I had an old typewriter and a big idea.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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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
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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
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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
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I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this…
— Mark Twain
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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
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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
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I write by ear. I tried writing with the typewriter, but I found it too unwieldy
— Groucho Marx
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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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There are moments when I cannot bear this unremitting consciousness. It knows only itself. Awake, I am in a continuum with my dreams. I feel…
— E L Doctorow
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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
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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
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