Typewriter Quotes

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

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.

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.

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

You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.

I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.'

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

My Panasonic typewriter can make graphs. It types in four different colors.

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.

Much as I like owning a Rolls-Royce, I could do without it. What I could not do without is a typewriter, a supply of yellow second sheets and the time to put them to good use.

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.

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

You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybody's switching to a computer. And I'm sort of laughed at.

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 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.

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.

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.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

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 try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

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

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: 'Oh, you're working on it right now?'

Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.