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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.

Barry Lopez
typewriters stories trying
I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was stil... by Beck

I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.

Beck
computer typewriters years
While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watc... by Billy Collins

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

Billy Collins
novelists poet typewriters

I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger.

Buchi Emecheta
typewriters writing children
There was a typewriter buried alive in that horse, the one I road... by Buddy Wakefield

There was a typewriter buried alive in that horse, the one I road to get out of the flood.

Buddy Wakefield
horse alive typewriters

I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter.

Caryl Rivers
chairs typewriters writing
Do some living and get yourself a typewriter. by Charles Bukowski

Do some living and get yourself a typewriter.

Charles Bukowski
typewriters

There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets. . . when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through.

Charles Bukowski
gun typewriters writing

take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning

Charles Bukowski
chaos sickness typewriters
WHEN YOU LEAVE YOUR TYPEWRITER YOU LEAVE YOUR MACHINE GUN AND THE... by Charles Bukowski

WHEN YOU LEAVE YOUR TYPEWRITER YOU LEAVE YOUR MACHINE GUN AND THE RATS COME POURING THROUGH.

Charles Bukowski
gun typewriters writing
I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a... by Charles Bukowski

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

Charles Bukowski
computer typewriters

I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.

Charles Krauthammer
typewriters darkness writing

That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.

Charles Kuralt
typewriters joy trying

I write exclusively using computers. Pens and typewriters can fsck right off - I wrote my first half million words in my teens on a manual typewriter (had to trade it for a new one due to keys snapping from metal fatigue) so I am not a pen or typewriter fetishist.

Charles Stross
typewriters keys writing

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.

Chinua Achebe
typewriters perfect mistake

Whenever I try to do anything on a typewriter, it's like having this machine between me and the words; what comes out is not quite what would come out if I were scribbling.

Chinua Achebe
machines typewriters trying
I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, t... by Clarence Budington Kelland

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

Clarence Budington Kelland
typewriters writing morning

I think being a writer was a crappy job when you just had typewriters. It was crappy when we just had ink and paper. And it's sort of crappy now. It's always just you and the page. That doesn't change.

Colson Whitehead
typewriters jobs thinking

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.

Conrad Aiken
machines typewriters book

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.

Curtis Hanson
guy typewriters men
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