Typewriters Quotes - Page 5

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.

The image of the reporter as a nicotine-stained Quixote, slugging back Scotch while skewering city hall with an expose ripped out of a typewriter on the crack of deadline, persists despite munificent evidence to the contrary.

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

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

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.

I use an IBM Thinkpad. I just use it like a typewriter, but when I started using it in 1987, I thought I won't be able to write anymore, so I thought I'd go back to the typewriter. But you couldn't go back to the typewriter after using the computer.

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.

A typical wine writer was once described as someone with a typewriter who was looking for his name in print, a free lunch, and a way to write off his wine cellar. It's a dated view. Wine writers now use computers.

I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.

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.

I don't like to see mistakes on the typewriter. I like a perfect script. On the typewriter I will sometimes leave a phrase that is not right, not what I want, simply because to change it would be a bit messy.

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

Do some living and get yourself a 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.

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.

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

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.

When I have a first draft, I have a floor under my feet that I can walk on. And then, especially with the help of the computer, rewriting is so easy to do with the computer, much easier than it used to be with the typewriter. So the books go through numerous drafts.

For decades I'd flit from drawing table to typewriter to guitar with no sense of strain or contradiction. They all exercised the same psychic muscle (the Imagination), and working in one medium refreshed my appetite for the others.

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

I like the sound a typewriter makes.

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

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

Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than the story. The words sit there on the page like coins, with their own opacity, as though they're there for their own sake. "A man goes into a phone booth, stirring coins in his palm." "Stirring" is such an obviously selected word. You can feel the writer looking for the word as he sat at the typewriter.