Typewriters Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Do some living and get yourself a typewriter.

I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter.

You can imagine what it was like for me to actually be sitting in a room with matching typewriters, working under the tutelage of this guy I so admired, both as a filmmaker and as a man.

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.

The iPhone is not and never was a phone. It is a pocket-sized computer that obviates the phone. The iPhone is to cell phones what the Mac was to typewriters.

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

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

I was a radioman when I first went into the Navy, so I learned to type by taking Morse code. So I was using the typewriter from day one. My handwriting wasn't any good anyway.

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

There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.

Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week. You are cradled in a white paper cocoon tied up with typewriter ribbon.

... photography is just a medium. It's like a typewriter. Photography as an art doesn't interest me an awful lot; as a participant, though I like to look at it.

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

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.

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

I have two vintage typewriters. One just about works and the other hasn't a hope in hell, bless it. But they're both beautiful, and they'll stay with me just as long as there's a roof over my head.

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

I like the sound a typewriter makes.

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

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.

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

All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

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

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

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

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

WHEN YOU LEAVE YOUR TYPEWRITER YOU LEAVE YOUR MACHINE GUN AND THE RATS COME POURING THROUGH.

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

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 quite what would come out if I were scribbling.

I began by doing book reviews on the typewriter and then went over to short stories on the machine, meanwhile sticking to pencil for poetry.

His [Sam Fuller] self-discipline was amazing. No matter what happened, he'd always go out to his Royal Upright typewriter and just keep working on his stories, his "yarns" as he called them.

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

I publish six books a year now, which is very exciting. But it keeps me into my typewriter at all times! Now that my children have grown up, I'm with my typewriter 20 hours a day.

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

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 a set of standards.

Naturally, no writer who's any good at all would sit down and put a sheet of paper in a typewriter and start typing a play unless he knew what he was writing about.

To say, "Well, I write when I really get into it" is a bunch of bull. Put the paper in the typewriter, stare at it a long time, get snowblindness if you have to, but write something.

I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines.

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

If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one of the magazines and a leaping start on the ladder upward.

When the typewriter stops in a New York office everybody's embarrassed; men start to quarrel or to make love to the stenographer or drop lighted cigarettes in the wastebasket.