Typewriter Quote by Joan Didion

I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter.

— Joan Didion

I use an IBM Thinkpad. I just use it like a typewriter, but when I started using it in 1987, I thought I won't…

— Joan Didion

I'd started doing fanzines from the age of nine. I'd been doing as many copies as you can get carbon paper into an upright…

— Michael Moorcock

When the typewriter stops in a New York office everybody's embarrassed; men start to quarrel or to make love to the stenographer or drop…

— John Dos Passos

“From earliest childhood I was charmed by the materials of my craft, by pencils and paper and, later, by the typewriter and the entire…

— John Updike

I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.

— Amiri Baraka

I publish six books a year now, which is very exciting. But it keeps me into my typewriter at all times! Now that my…

— Danielle Steel

“Don’t let me ever think, dear God, that I was anything but the instrument for Your story-just like the typewriter was mine.”

— Flannery O'Connor

I don't read anything electronically. I don't write electronically, either - except e-mails to my family and friends. I write in longhand. I have…

— John Irving

I began by doing book reviews on the typewriter and then went over to short stories on the machine, meanwhile sticking to pencil for…

— Conrad Aiken

I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me.…

— Richard Greenberg

My boyfriend got me a computer three years ago. I'll admit it does make things a lot easier. When I was working on a…

— David Sedaris