Quotes by Typewriters What we, thanks to Jung, call "synchronicity" (coincidence on steroids), Buddhists have long known as "the interpenetration of realities." Whether it's a natural law of sorts or simply evidence of mathematical inevitability (an infinite number of monkeys locked up with an infinite number of typewriters eventually producing 'Hamlet,' not to mention 'Tarzan of the Apes'), it seems to be as real as it is eerie. Tom Robbins buddhisttypewritersreal 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. Tom Robbins still-life-with-woodpeckertypewriterslooks At the typewriter you find out who you are. Tom Robbins who-you-aretypewriters You could walk around behind the typist and read the text, which was about hearing, and what you heard was the sound of the typewriter. Of course, this was a pre-electric typewriter, a typewriter that made noise. Vito Acconci typewritersnoisesound Especially once those poetry events began, because, yeah, the stuff was still on the page, but the page was starting to spill into real space, spill into air, once you could hear it, once there was a typewriter, once there was a body of a typist, it was getting rid of the confines of the page. Vito Acconci typewritersrealair I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all — what do they want, a crowd looking over their typewriters? Or those who talk about having to stare at a blank page — do they want someone to write on it? Wilfrid Sheed typewriterslonelinesswriting If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters. William Feather typewritersjobsmen If I had had to write only about imaginary people, I would have had to close up my typewriter. I wrote about my life in less and less disguise as I grew older, and finally with no disguise - except the disguise we create for ourselves, which is self-deception. William Maxwell typewritersselfwriting My younger daughter told me recently that when she was a child she thought the typewriter was a toy that I went into my room and closed the door and played with. William Maxwell daughtertypewriterschildren 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. William Saroyan typewritersnameswhite If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter. William S. Burroughs typewritersmenmean 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. Winston Graham empathytypewriterscreative I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don't function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I'm even ready to write. Wole Soyinka typewriterswritingmorning 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. Wole Soyinka typewriterswritingmorning«12345678910
