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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

Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to. — Thomas Pynchon

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

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

You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell? — Jenkin Lloyd Jones

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

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

I'm kind of a Luddite myself. I've got a bunch of typewriters at home. I'm a big fan of old technology. — Kerry Bishe

Nothing is more frustrating than sitting in an office amid typewriters and mimeographers when you know what deus ex machina means. — Florence King

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

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

Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder - and turn quickly to my typewriter. — Sydney J. Harris

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

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

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

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

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

People die from typewriters falling on their heads. — Jonathan Davis

How strange to remember typewriters, with their jammed keys and snarled ribbons and the smudgy carbon paper for copies. — Margaret Atwood

You can lie to your wife or your boss, but you cannot lie to your typewriter. Sooner or later you must reveal your true self in your pages. — Leon Uris

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

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

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

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

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

I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas. — Olivia De Havilland

We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

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

What should I do?" "Throw up in your typewriter every morning." "Yeah." "Clean up every noon. — Ray Bradbury

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

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

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

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

If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters. — William Feather

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

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

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

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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 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

enough monkeys with enough typewriters can give you Shakespeare, so — Nat Kozinn

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

Authors, full of evil thoughts, lock up your typewriters. — Ray Bradbury

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

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