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I like the sound a typewriter makes.
At the typewriter you find out who you are.
I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.
You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.
I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.
A typewriter forces you to keep going, to march forward.
I am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter.
When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend.
A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.
I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.
I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.
My Panasonic typewriter can make graphs. It types in four different colors.
I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.
I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.
I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter.
I think I would die if I couldn't get to the typewriter every day. I really need that.
The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter.
Getting to my typewriter is something I push myself to, but once I am working, I work hard.
Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.
Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.
Most of my early work was done on typewriter. And the only way to iterate drafts was to re-type it.
I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.
Gibson wrote 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter, you know, before the technology he was writing about existed.
In the future the way that Whittaker Chambers was able to carry out forgery by typewriter will be disclosed.
I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.
I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.
When I began to write and used a typewriter, I went through three drafts of a book before showing it to an editor.
The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.
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.
I still use a typewriter from time to time, but because I can't type as well as I used to, I really don't use one very much.
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.
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 would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.
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.
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.
Sometimes I can think of so many ways of expressing myself that I feel I'm an old typewriter, and too many keys come forward at once - and I get jammed.
I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.
My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.
I have a love/hate relationship with just about all technology in my life. My first typewriter in particular. I had a helluva time putting new ribbon on it.
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 think I'm from the 18th century, not even the 19th. I don't even use a typewriter. I prefer longhand, and that's how I submit my manuscripts to my publishers.
I was living in a large apartment with no furniture, just a typewriter, and because I had nothing else to do with my time, it made me take my writing seriously.
As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.
I wrote a letter to the CIA on my manual college typewriter. I mailed it to CIA with my resume. I didn't have an address. So I just put, 'CIA. Washington, D.C.'
I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.
There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifying - as long as I can sit at my typewriter, alone, for half a day.