Quotes by Typewriters People die from typewriters falling on their heads. Jonathan Davis falling-in-lovetypewriterspeople When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way. Joyce Carol Oates grandmothertypewriterswriting It all depends on what I'm working on and if there is a deadline involved. Anything that's headed toward a magazine or newspaper is hacked out on the computer; that's a matter of efficiency. I write longer pieces of prose on a typewriter because the act of retyping it for the computer is a useful tactic for revision. Poems tend to be written longhand. Kevin Keck piecestypewriterswriting The best kind of writing, and the biggest thrill in writing, Larry L. King thrilltypewriterswriting Ink and paper are as cheap as sand or water, almost. No board of directors has to convene in order to decide whether we can afford to write down this or that. I myself once staged the end of the world on two pieces of paper- at a cost of ...less than a penny, including wear and tear on my typewriter ribbon and the seat of my pants. Kurt Vonnegut typewriterswritingthinking I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...) Larry Wall architecturetypewritersviews You can lie to your wife or your boss, but you cannot lie to your typewriter. Sooner or later you must reveal your true self in your pages. Leon Uris typewritersselflying 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. Leonard Michaels phonestypewritersmen My mitochondria comprise a very large proportion of me. I cannot do the calculation, but I suppose there is almost as much of them in sheer dry bulk as there is the rest of me. Looked at in this way, I could be taken for a very large, motile colony of respiring bacteria, operating a complex system of nuclei, microtubules, and neurons for the pleasure and sustenance of their families, and running, at the moment, a typewriter. Lewis Thomas typewriterstakenrunning Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it. Lillian Hellman typewriterskeyswriting When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains among the buffalo. Often I think of what pitiful fools are those who use mind-altering drugs to seek feelings they do not have, each drug taking a little more from what they have of mind, leaving them a little less. Give the brain encouragement from study, from thinking, from visualizing, and no drugs are needed. Louis L'Amour encouragementtypewritersthinking No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge. Lynn Abbey finalstypewriterstrying You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses. Man Ray askstypewritersuse Some professional writers write everyday no matter what and perhaps that's the way it should be done, but it's not the way I do it. If I'm not pregnant with words and I'm not in labor with them, I don't even try to bring them forth because they won't be any good anyway. Once I'm ready to deliver, it's like being pregnant. I've got to find a typewriter or a piece of paper. The only words that have ever had any possible value to others seem to have been those words that just had to come out. Marianne Williamson everydaytypewriterswriting When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life. Martin Amis typewritersnew-lifehappens A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it. Marshall McLuhan transcribingtypewritersmean A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they aren’t flexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it. Marvin Minsky typewriterssoundtrying We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them. Mary Roberts Rinehart miserablenot-happytypewriters I have two vintage typewriters. One just about works and the other hasn't a hope in hell, bless it. But they're both beautiful, and they'll stay with me just as long as there's a roof over my head. Matt Roper vintagetypewritersbeautiful I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this is the first attempt I have ever made & yet I perceive I shall soon & easily acquire a fine facility in its use. ... The machine has several virtues. I believe it will print faster than I can write. One may lean back in his chair & work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around. Of course it saves paper. Mark Twain typewriterswritingbelieve«12345678910»
