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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

That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it. — Charles Kuralt

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter — Allen Ginsberg

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

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? — Woody Allen

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

This is not the first time that intimidation by typewriter has caused me to consider the pen. — Tom Robbins

I'd had the picture of John Lennon in my room all the time I was at gymnas and proceeded to hang it on the wall behind the typewriter. — Karl Ove Knausgard

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

This typewriter is the only one that has listened to me throughout the years, the only one who wants to know the girl beneath my layers. — Tessa Emily Hall

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 enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter. — Caryl Rivers

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

I was just doodling at the typewriter, — Larry McMurtry

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

I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten. — Octavia E. Butler

I am not lazy.
I am on the amphetamine of the soul.
I am, each day,
typing out the God
my typewriter believes in. — Anne Sexton

Don't let me ever think, dear God, that I was anything but the instrument for Your story-just like the typewriter was mine. — Flannery O'Connor

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

But other times, I'd find her staring at the typewriter with something that could only be described as hate. — Steve Cushman

I sometimes mistake my typewriter for my teeth, because the more I bite the more my column will be read. — Sheilah Graham Westbrook

An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought. — Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

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

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

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

Because of the realities of human nature, perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter. — Richard M. Nixon

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy! — Allen Ginsberg

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

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

My mother wrote poetry when I was young - I have an early memory of the sound of her typewriter - and my father told me inventive bedtime stories. — Eula Biss

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.

You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk away the next time. — James N. Frey

Writing is easy...all you have to do is sit at the typewriter and bleed. -- Ernest Hemingway — Dana Wayne

I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter ... — Larry Wall

I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter. — Alger Hiss

At the typewriter you find out who you are. — Tom Robbins

I seat myself at the typewriter and hope, and lurk. — Mignon G. Eberhart

The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world. — Anthony Liccione

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

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'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter. — Joan Didion

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

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

In the future the way that Whittaker Chambers was able to carry out forgery by typewriter will be disclosed. — Alger Hiss

I like the sound a typewriter makes. — Paul Auster

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me. — Ray Bradbury

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

Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at. — Anne Sexton

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

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

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

The secret of successful writing lies in striking the right keys on the typewriter. — Evan Esar

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

If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter. — William S. Burroughs

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