Bits Quote by Chinua Achebe

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…

— Susan Sontag

I prefer type than write

— Pipim Prima

I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type…

— Paul Auster

I sometimes mistake my typewriter for my teeth, because the more I bite the more my column will be read.

— Sheilah Graham Westbrook

I hate typing but I love to write manually.

— Martellus Bennett

To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when…

— John Sayles

Whenever I try to do anything on a typewriter, it's like having this machine between me and the words; what comes out is not…

— Chinua Achebe

I have many stories which don't make it to the computer. When I put it into the computer I make some changes and often…

— Arthur Bradford

All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.

— Martin Amis

Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like…

— T. S. Eliot

When I was younger, I dreaded having to write. I would find every possible excuse not to sit down at the typewriter (this was…

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren’t distracted by the total lack…

— R. K. Milholland