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Last updated on November 20, 2024.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Because of the realities of human nature, perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter.
Standing on a ledge again. Everyone laughs at dancing monkey with the typewriter. Not for long, though.
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.
In the future the way that Whittaker Chambers was able to carry out forgery by typewriter will be disclosed.
I like the idea of being a novelist. I picture myself on the coast, the wind in my hair, horses galloping around me as I sit at my typewriter in the middle of a field.
I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter.
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.
It's very simple... this banging around with a camera and typewriter as a business is just one helluva lot of fun.
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.
Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.
Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies in all the ointments, the daily woes that a man endures -- take them, George, they're yours!
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
They gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom.
I sometimes mistake my typewriter for my teeth, because the more I bite the more my column will be read.
I have had the irreplaceable opportunity of learning my profession with the proper tools, the most important of which is not a pencil or a typewriter, but the necessary time to think before using them.
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 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.
I started out when I was 29 - too young to write novels. I was broke. I was on unemployment insurance. I was supposed to be writing a Ph.D. dissertation, so I had a typewriter and a lot of paper.
Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder - and turn quickly to my typewriter.
I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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.
Gazing at the typewriter in moments of desperation I console myself with three thoughts. Alcohol at six, dinner at eight, and to be immortal you've got to be dead.
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.
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.
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.
take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning
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.
The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter.
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.
An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.
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.
A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about.
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.
I love to photograph the tools of one's trade: Duncan Grant's paintbrushes, the typewriter of Herman Hesse, or even my own guitar, a 1957 Fender Duo-Sonic.
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.
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.
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.
The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.
Gibson wrote 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter, you know, before the technology he was writing about existed.
I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel.
That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.
I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.
Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at.
When it comes to taxation, Americans are still banging out letters on a typewriter and dropping them in the mail box while everybody else has moved on to texting and Instagram.
Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.
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
The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.
Bless all useful objects,
the spoons made of bone,
the mattress I cook my dreams upon,
the typewriter that is my church
with an altar of keys always waiting.
I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.
I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.
Getting to my typewriter is something I push myself to, but once I am working, I work hard.
When I began to write and used a typewriter, I went through three drafts of a book before showing it to an editor.
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.
If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter.
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.
