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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 never had a typewriter. I never had any machines.
— Fran Lebowitz
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
bludgeoning countless typewriter ribbons,
— Gilbert King
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
— Woody Allen
I looked inside my typewriter. There's a city in there. Black and grey columns and no inhabitants.
— Helen Oyeyemi
While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.
— Billy Collins
Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
— R.L. Stine
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
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
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
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
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
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 was just doodling at the typewriter,
— Larry McMurtry
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
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
[R]eality and real people are too subtle and complicated for anybody's typewriter, even Tolstoy's, even yours, even mine.
— Edward Abbey
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
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
The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.
— Paddy Chayefsky
I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter ...
— Larry Wall
if this typewriter cant do it fuck it
— Tom Robbins
Defunct, adj.
You brought home a typewriter for me. — David Levithan
You brought home a typewriter for me. — David Levithan
I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.
— Alger Hiss
I sometimes mistake my typewriter for my teeth, because the more I bite the more my column will be read.
— Sheilah Graham Westbrook
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
What should I do?" "Throw up in your typewriter every morning." "Yeah." "Clean up every noon.
— Ray Bradbury
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 love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.
— David Mamet
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
At the typewriter you find out who you are.
— Tom Robbins
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
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
I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.
— Beck
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
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
My Panasonic typewriter can make graphs. It types in four different colors.
— Heather O'Rourke
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
Take a writer away from his typewriter
and all you have left
is
the sickness
which started him
typing
in the
beginning — Charles Bukowski
and all you have left
is
the sickness
which started him
typing
in the
beginning — Charles Bukowski
Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
— Raymond Chandler
The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.
— Pablo Neruda
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
The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!
— Allen Ginsberg
I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.
— Howard Rheingold
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
— Ernest Hemingway,
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 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.
And sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it
— Nikki Giovanni
The typewriter is indeed my passport into a world otherwise barred to me and my kind.
— Suzanne Rindell
But other times, I'd find her staring at the typewriter with something that could only be described as hate.
— Steve Cushman
I had an old typewriter and a big idea.
— J.K. Rowling
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 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
There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.
— Anne Rice
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
They gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom.
— Robin Ince
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
You don't write poems sitting at a typewriter; you write them swimming or climbing a mountain or walking.
— Robert Penn Warren
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
Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.
— Gene Fowler
Writing is easy...all you have to do is sit at the typewriter and bleed. -- Ernest Hemingway
— Dana Wayne
You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.
— Charles Bukowski
I like the sound a typewriter makes.
— Paul Auster
In the future the way that Whittaker Chambers was able to carry out forgery by typewriter will be disclosed.
— Alger Hiss
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
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
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 talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.
— Alistair Cooke
I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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
For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.
— Alec Soth
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
The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world.
— Anthony Liccione
(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
I'm with you in Rockland, where we are great writers on this same dreadful typewriter.
— Allen Ginsberg
I seat myself at the typewriter and hope, and lurk.
— Mignon G. Eberhart