Quote by Tom Robbins

“There is, however, a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like part…

— Tom Robbins

“Most of the ideas I’ve gotten for novels or screenplays have occurred to me while I was either shaving or taking a bath. A…

— Gary Reilly

A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.

— Marshall McLuhan

In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare out of the window. Nowadays, because of the marvels…

— Douglas Adams

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

It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their flights of…

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

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

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

There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part…

— Tom Robbins

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

— P. G. Wodehouse

Using a typewriter, at times, feels more like playing piano than jotting down notes, a percussive exercise in expressing thought that is both tortuous…

— Mary Pilon

Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

— Gene Fowler