Awful Quote by Mark Twain

I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However,…

— Mark Twain

Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort.…

— Dorothea Lange

The machine conceals the machinations.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

— H. L. Mencken

I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.

— Nelson DeMille

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

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

— Norman Mailer

A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.

— Alan Turing

“As any reader knows, a printed page creates its own reading space, its own physical landscape in which the texture of the paper, the…

— Alberto Manguel

Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.

— William Moore Kelly

Twiddle-twiddle away at my softly clicky keyboard for a while, making twiddly adjustments all along- and then print what I have twiddled. Glare at…

— Roy Blount, Jr

Sometimes a writer, like an acrobat, must try a trick that is too much for him.

— Anonymous