Behinds Quote by Vito Acconci

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

— Gene Fowler

I wasn't prepared for this big room with clattering typewriters and teletype printers. You could hardly hear yourself think.

— Ray Kroc

“The typewriter is neat and compact and sturdy and blue, just the right machine to pound out a missive of love. When you strike…

— Yvette Walker

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

Everything I write, I read out loud. It has to sound a certain way. It has to look a certain way on the page.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I write by ear. I tried writing with the typewriter, but I found it too unwieldy

— Groucho Marx

Especially once those poetry events began, because, yeah, the stuff was still on the page, but the page was starting to spill into real…

— Vito Acconci

When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don't have an audience; I have…

— Don DeLillo

The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a…

— Annie Dillard

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

If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.

— Bill Bruford

Prior to 1980, people used to dictate to a secretary for preparing written documents and that person would then punch keys on a typewriter.…

— Shiva Ayyadurai