Bites Quote by Sheilah Graham Westbrook

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

— P. G. Wodehouse

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 try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.

— Roger Zelazny

The best kind of writing, and the biggest thrill in writing, is to suddenly read a line from your typewriter that you didnt know…

— Larry L. King

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 don't use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I'm a horizontal writer. I think better when I'm lying down.

— Truman Capote

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

— Lisa Jewell

I do a lot of revising on paper. Sometimes I think I should just write longhand - what I type reads very different once…

— Sara Shepard

I think I would die if I couldn't get to the typewriter every day. I really need that.

— Frank Deford

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that…

— Barry Lopez

When I have my manuscript finished, more or less, I type it myself, with two fingers. I type fast with two fingers. And then…

— Elie Wiesel

I don't like to see mistakes on the typewriter. I like a perfect script. On the typewriter I will sometimes leave a phrase that…

— Chinua Achebe