Typewriters Quotes - Page 11

• I wasn't prepared for this big room with clattering typewriters and teletype printers. You could hardly hear yourself think.

  Ray Kroc

  Thinking, Rooms, Bigs

  Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.84, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to you, you train yourself for a lifetime. Every single day of your life, some wild new thing to be done. You write to please yourself. You write for the joy of writing. Then your public reads you and it begins to gather around your selling a potato peeler in an alley, you know. The enthusiasm, the joy itself draws me. So that means every day of my life I've written. When the joy stops, I'll stop writing.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Mean, Joy

  "Ray Bradbury's Lost Interview On Madmen, Writing, and Cars" by Chris Higgins, mentalfloss.com. April 28, 2015.

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• History shows us a lot of things. It shows why the Lord's Prayer includes the supplication: "And lead us not into temptation." In my day, dissertations were still written by hand, or drummed out with a typewriter. In the past, you had to round up the literature, find the books and find the passages. Nowadays you click on Wikipedia or Google and you have everything you need. This probably makes it more difficult to resist temptation.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Prayer, Book, Past

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Machines

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• Forward steps are made by giving up old armor because words are built into you - in the soft typewriter of the womb you do not realize the word-armor you carry; for example, when you read this page your eyes move irresistibly from left to right following the words that you have been accustomed to.

  William S. Burroughs

  Giving Up, Moving, Eye

  Source: realitystudio.org

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• 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

  Mean, Men, Ends

  Source: realitystudio.org

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• 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

  Trying, Machines, Ifs

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• 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

  Men, Guy, Sitting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Salinger is such a terrific writer; he did so many great things. He is one of those writers that I still reread, simply because he makes me see the possibilities and makes me feel like writing. There are certain writers who put you in the mood to write. In the way a whiff of a cigar will bring back memories of a ballgame on a Saturday afternoon, reading Salinger makes me want to get to the typewriter.

  Robert Cormier

  Memories, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• If you're going to be a writer you should sit down and write in the morning, and keep it up all day, every day. Charles Bukowski, no matter how drunk he got the night before or no matter how hungover he was, the next morning he was at his typewriter. Every morning. Holidays, too. He'd have a bottle of whiskey with him to wake up with, and that's what he believed. That's the way you became a writer: by writing. When you weren't writing, you weren't a writer.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Morning, Writing, Holiday

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• I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.

  Olivia de Havilland

  Cinema, Film, Carbon

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• Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not happen. So, how can you teach anybody how to write? It's beyond me, because you yourself don't even know if you're going to be able to. I'm always worried, well, you know, every time I go upstairs with my wine bottle. Sometimes I'll sit at that typewriter for fifteen minutes, you know. I don't go up there to write. The typewriter's up there. If it doesn't start moving, I say, well this could be the night that I hit the dust.

  Charles Bukowski

  Fear, Moving, Wine

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• 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

  Writing, Self, People

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