Best Typewriters Lines
152 Typewriters quotes by 125 unique authors
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Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to.
— Thomas Pynchon
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and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is…
— Nikki Giovanni
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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
— Raymond Chandler
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Writer's block is real. It happens. Some days you sit down at the old typewriter, put your fingers on the keys, and nothing pops into…
— James N. Frey
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I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the…
— Ernest Hemingway
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When forced to leave my house for an extended period of time, I take my typewriter with me, and together we endure the wretchedness of…
— David Sedaris
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If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that…
— Susan Sontag
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Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not happen. So, how…
— Charles Bukowski
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In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare out of the window. Nowadays, because of the marvels of…
— Douglas Adams
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I used to feel guilty about spending morning hours working on a book; about fleeing to the brook in the afternoon. It took several summers…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a…
— Charles Bukowski
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Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task -- such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping -- I always look forward to…
— Isaac Asimov
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The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!
— Allen Ginsberg
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What should I do?" "Throw up in your typewriter every morning." "Yeah." "Clean up every noon.
— Ray Bradbury
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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
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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
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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
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Do some living and get yourself a typewriter.
— Charles Bukowski
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We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter
— Allen Ginsberg
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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
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While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.
— Billy Collins
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take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning
— Charles Bukowski
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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
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Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter.
— Daniel Handler
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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
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