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I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms. — Nora Ephron

I am aware that a computer can't create a poem, but neither can a typewriter. — Charles Bukowski

I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines. — Fran Lebowitz

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon. — Robert Benchley

I wanted to shove her typewriter on the floor. I hated it and I hated her. I wanted to be a Cosby. — Augusten Burroughs

I looked inside my typewriter. There's a city in there. Black and grey columns and no inhabitants. — Helen Oyeyemi

This is a thing which astonishes me no end, but affects you not. — Jack Kerouac

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane. — Billy Collins

Clatter of a typewriter suggests that you're actually building something. — David Sedaris

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit. — P.G. Wodehouse

The best kind of writing, and the biggest thrill in writing,
is to suddenly read a line from your typewriter that you
didnt know was in you. — Larry L. King

I'm an empress.
I wear an apron.
My typewriter writes.
It didn't break the way it warned.
Even crazy, I'm as nice
as a chocolate bar. — Anne Sexton

No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge. — Lynn Abbey

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

Yes, I felt very small. The typewriter seemed larger than a piano, I was less than a molecule. What could I do? I drank more.
-pg 237 — Albert Sanchez Pinol

I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter. — Francine Pascal

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

Standing on a ledge again. Everyone laughs at dancing monkey with the typewriter. Not for long, though. — Neil Simon

Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter. — Lemony Snicket

You can write a letter with a typewriter, a pencil, or a crayon. What you have to say is the important thing. — Paul Strisik

Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter. — Gerald Brenan

Do some living and get yourself a typewriter. — Charles Bukowski

I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter. — Mona Simpson

I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to go to a typewriter and write poetry. — Patti Smith

I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too. — David Mamet

Like Paul Kraston said, all I ask in life is a water bed, a TV and a typewriter. Well, I'll just have an ordinary bed, a TV and a guitar. — John Lennon

Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop. — Red Smith

There was a typewriter buried alive in that horse, the one I road to get out of the flood. — Buddy Wakefield

One person plus one typewriter constitutes a movement. — Pauli Murray

The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter. — Paddy Chayefsky

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

I had an old typewriter and a big idea. — J.K. Rowling

Take a writer away from his typewriter
and all you have left
is
the sickness
which started him
typing
in the
beginning — Charles Bukowski

The typewriter is indeed my passport into a world otherwise barred to me and my kind. — Suzanne Rindell

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend. — Theodore White

You can have the finest pen, typewriter, or computer, but without a set of eyes that truly see the world, you might as well have none of it. — Thurman P. Banks Jr.

My imagination was running amok again. Twice in one night. This never happens when I'm sitting in front of a typewriter. — Gary Reilly

You don't ask a writer what typewriter he uses. — Man Ray

I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter. — Howard Rheingold

The addition of the typewriter to the printing-press has given a new and horrible impetus to the spread of half-baked thought. — John Dos Passos

I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter. — Ray Bradbury

The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again. — Pablo Neruda

You don't write poems sitting at a typewriter; you write them swimming or climbing a mountain or walking. — Robert Penn Warren

It's bad to get up early, stand at your typewriter and work, then find it's nothing and take a bottle to bed. — Ray Bradbury

Defunct, adj.
You brought home a typewriter for me. — David Levithan

To Nick's mind, a corpse was just a thing, no different than a chair or typewriter or a rug. A corpse was just an inanimate thing which filled space. — Stephen King

For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter. — Alec Soth

I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit. — P.G. Wodehouse

It's very simple ... this banging around with a camera and typewriter as a business is just one helluva lot of fun. — David Douglas Duncan

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 that that. — Susan Sontag

I am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter. — Charles Bukowski

On mobile phones: "It looks like a TV remote fucked a little typewriter and this is the bastard offspring — Richard Kadrey

When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life. — Martin Amis

I've got to get back to the typewriter, I thought. Art takes discipline. Any asshole can chase a skirt. I drank, thinking about it. At — Charles Bukowski

I like the sound a typewriter makes. — Paul Auster

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter. — Charles Bukowski

I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002. — Beck

I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness ... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text. — Charles Krauthammer

They gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom. — Robin Ince

There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. — Sol Stein

Mrs Dorothea's typewriter was like a heart, a giant heart beating in the middle of the fog and chaos. — Roberto Bolano

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop. — Clarence Budington Kelland

I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen. — Steve Wozniak

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

Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it. — Lillian Hellman

(I'm not online.) I don't have a fax. I don't go in for any of that stuff. The typewriter is as far as I went. — Walter Kaylin

I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer. — Ray Bradbury

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. — Ernest Hemingway,

Gallons of ink and miles of typewriter ribbon expended on the misery of the unrequited lover; not a word about the utter tedium of the unrequiting. — Tom Stoppard