Quotes by Typewriters It's just interesting to me that the physical enactment of that mind moving has gradually changed for you in the last few years. It made me wonder if the change was deliberate in any sense, or procedural, like when A.R. Ammons stuck an adding machine roll into his typewriter to squeeze his verses into shorter lines. Matthew Zapruder typewriters years moving There was a time when most people had a choice between two kinds of personal communication, handwriting or using a typewriter. Today, people are invited to choose from a list of (surprisingly exotic) typefaces every time they turn on their computer. I think this has made everyone more aware of the idea that picking a typeface is a conscious choice. Michael Bierut communication typewriters thinking I seat myself at the typewriter and hope, and lurk. Mignon G. Eberhart seats typewriters writing An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought. Mignon McLaughlin typewriters keys writing If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.' Nassim Nicholas Taleb typewriters education numbers Standing on a ledge again. Everyone laughs at dancing monkey with the typewriter. Not for long, though. Neil Simon dancing typewriters long and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it Nikki Giovanni causes typewriters thinking The manufacturers of mechanical typewriters believed that they had developed sufficiently when they introduced electric typewriters. Then came the PC, and the deeply traditional makers of typewriters disappeared from the market. Norbert Reithofer electric typewriters makers I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms. Nora Ephron bangs form typewriters Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies in all the ointments, the daily woes that a man endures -- take them, George, they're yours! Ogden Nash office typewriters men I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas. Olivia de Havilland cinema film typewriters I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit. P. G. Wodehouse curse typewriters writing The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter. Paddy Chayefsky censorship typewriters mind The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again. Pablo Neruda typewriters worship hands The more I hear of ban-the-gun legislation forming in Washington, and the more I hear it advocated from the editorial pulpit of the New York Times, the more I want my own .45 holstered within easy reach of this typewriter. Patrick Bedard gun typewriters new-york I like the sound a typewriter makes. Paul Auster typewriters sound I love to photograph the tools of one's trade: Duncan Grant's paintbrushes, the typewriter of Herman Hesse, or even my own guitar, a 1957 Fender Duo-Sonic. Patti Smith guitar typewriters tools I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I cross out a lot - I'm not writing in stone tablets, it's just ink on paper. I don't feel comfortable without a pen or a pencil in my hand. I can't think with my fingers on the keyboard. Words are generated for me by gripping the pen, and pressing the point on the paper. Paul Auster typewriters writing thinking 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. Paul Gray scotch typewriters cities I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to go to a typewriter and write poetry. Patti Smith typewriters writing art «12345678910»