Because Quote by Robert Wilson

I am a terrible, terrible typist. I could not have been a writer in the age of typewriters.

— Lisa Jewell

Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years…

— Gabrielle Zevin

My mother, God bless her, forced me to take touch typing when I was 16.

— Paul Allen

I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does…

— Kevin J. Anderson

My mother hid the struggle from us children. She complained about her salary, and she had a tough time. Although she became a headmistress,…

— Derek Walcott

I'm an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to…

— Jimmy Carter

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

— Umberto Eco

My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated it and hated him for dying…

— Sylvia Plath

My mother was a huge, huge reader. I think I picked up very early how precious it was to write things in books and…

— Judith Viorst

Well, my mother, she made me apply for a school where I was supposed to learn how to type. She said, well, instead of…

— Isabelle Huppert

When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

My mom bought a computer in the '80s to do accounting, and she was so smart at computers that we spent all our time…

— Brianna Wu