Quotes by Typewriters 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. A. E. Hotchner typewriters reading writing 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. Agatha Christie agony typewriters feelings 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. Agatha Christie dining typewriters writing This is the same problem I have with digital photography. The potential is always remarkable. But the medium never settles. Each year there is a better camera to buy and new software to download. The user never has time to become comfortable with the tool. Consequently too much of the work is merely about the technology. The HDR and QTVR fads are good examples. Instead of focusing on the subject, users obsess over RAW conversion, Photoshop plug-ins, and on and on. For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter. Alec Soth technology typewriters photography For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter. Alec Soth technology typewriters needs I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter. Alger Hiss typewriters house wonder We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter Allen Ginsberg howl great-writers typewriters The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy! Allen Ginsberg holy voice typewriters I had one typewriter for 50 years, but I have bought seven computers in six years. I suppose that's why Bill Gates is rich, and Underwood is out of business. Andy Rooney bills typewriters years When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending you can use machinery that thinks faster than you do. An electric typewriter is ready to go before I have anything to say. Andy Rooney typewriters writing thinking You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively. ... You put a piece of paper in the typewriter, or you turn on your computer and bring up the right file. ... You begin rocking, just a little at first, and then like a huge autistic child. ... Then your mental illnesses arrive at the desk like your sickest, most secretive relatives. And they pull up chairs in a semicircle around the computer, and they try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath, leering at you behind your back. Anne Lamott typewriters trying children 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. Anne Rice typewriters writing people 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. Anne Rivers Siddons typewriters writing book Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at. Anne Sexton typewriters yesterday love-is Take a woman talking, Anne Sexton women typewriters moving Bless all useful objects, Anne Sexton typewriters keys dream I am not lazy. Anne Sexton poetry typewriters believe I write most of my first drafts on an old manual typewriter, a really old one. It's a big black metal "Woodstock" from about 1920. I try to write everything down at once, in one sitting. The longer stories in this collection are divided up into sections. Each section represents a different sitting, a different idea for the same story. Arthur Bradford typewriters writing ideas I have many stories which don't make it to the computer. When I put it into the computer I make some changes and often add a few sentences here and there. I like the typewriter for first drafts because it means you can't change anything right away, you just have to put it all down. Arthur Bradford here-and-there typewriters mean Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the least physical labor, the least material, and the one which can be done between shifts, in the hospital pantry, on the subway, and on scraps of surplus paper. ... poetry has been the major voice of poor, working class, and Colored women. A room of one's own may be a necessity for writing prose, but so are reams of paper, a typewriter, and plenty of time. Audre Lorde typewriters writing art 12345678910»
