Quotes by Typewriters The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon. Robert Benchley ribbons typewriters writing The reason I was able to give up smoking was because of the computer. You couldn't lean a cigarette on a computer, like you could on a typewriter. So it just made it that much more difficult to smoke. So I quit. Robert Stone giving-up typewriters smoking I was a radioman when I first went into the Navy, so I learned to type by taking Morse code. So I was using the typewriter from day one. My handwriting wasn't any good anyway. Robert Stone navy typewriters firsts They gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom. Robin Ince monkeys technology typewriters I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences. Roger Zelazny typewriters writing trying In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this. Salman Rushdie typewriters writing thinking When you consider all the writers who never even had a machine. Who would have given an eyeball for a good typewriter. Any typewriter. All the ones who wrote on a matchbook covers. Paper bags. Toilet paper. Who had their writing destroyed by their jailers. Who persisted beyond all odds. Sam Shepard odds typewriters writing I like the idea of being a novelist. I picture myself on the coast, the wind in my hair, horses galloping around me as I sit at my typewriter in the middle of a field. Sara Cox horse typewriters hair I sometimes mistake my typewriter for my teeth, because the more I bite the more my column will be read. Sheilah Graham Westbrook teeth typewriters mistake I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper. Shelby Foote typewriters paper want I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen. Steve Wozniak typewriters games thinking When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions. Steve Jobs stanford-university typewriters years I like to always stop with a couple of pages that I haven't - that are just raw copy, where I haven't touched it, I haven't tried to revise it, I haven't tried to polish it. It's like having a little bit of a runway. The next day when you sit down, you have the comfort of saying, well, I have got a little bit here, used to be in the typewriter. Now it's in the magic box, the computer. Stephen King next-day couple typewriters Most writers I know have switched to word processors. I haven't but I'm very curious about why people like it so much. I think it has something to do with the fact that at last writing, which has been such an old-fashioned, artisanal activity, even on a typewriter, has now entered the central domain of modern experience which is that of making copies, being involved in the world of duplicates and machine-mediated activities. Susan Sontag typewriters writing thinking Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder - and turn quickly to my typewriter. Sydney J. Harris staring typewriters morning If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that. Susan Sontag junk typewriters writing Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety. T. S. Eliot crafts typewriters long I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. Tennessee Williams failure typewriters night When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend. Theodore White reporters typewriters Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to. Thomas Pynchon pentagon typewriters littles «12345678910»
