Typewriters Quotes - Page 6

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

  Clarence Budington Kelland

  Morning, Writing, Scream

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• They gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom.

  Robin Ince

  Technology, Monkeys, Bathroom

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• I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: 'Oh, you're working on it right now?'

  John Sayles

  Writing, Sunset, Doors

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• If you want to be a writer, all you need is a piece of paper and a pencil, and I had a manual typewriter. It doesn't cost money to write. It costs money to make art. So I would just write. I would hand out stories in the classes in high school. And the teacher would say, "Whatever you do, don't become a writer."

  Tama Janowitz

  Teacher, Art, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.

  Agatha Christie

  Writing, Dining, Meals

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• A typical wine writer was once described as someone with a typewriter who was looking for his name in print, a free lunch, and a way to write off his wine cellar. It's a dated view. Wine writers now use computers.

  Frank J. Prial

  Writing, Wine, Views

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• I edit as I go. Especially when I go to commit it to paper. I prefer a typewriter even to a computer. I don't like it. There's no noise on the computer. I like a typewriter because I am such a slow typist. I edit as I am committing it to paper. I like to see the words before me and I go, "Yeah, that's it." They appear before me and they fit. I don't usually take large parts out. If I get stuck early in a song, I take it as a sign that I might be writing the chorus and don't know it. Sometimes,you gotta step back a little bit and take a look at what you're doing.

  John Prine

  Song, Writing, Looks

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• Nate Silver says this is a 73.6 percent chance that the president is going to win. Nobody in that campaign thinks they have a 73 — they think they have a 50.1 percent chance of winning. And you talk to the Romney people, it’s the same thing.

  Joe Scarborough

  Winning, Thinking, Race

  "Statistician Nate Silver Scores Big On Election Night". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 7, 2012.

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• 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

  Paper, Want, Fountain

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• 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

  Writing, Odds, Bags

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• My Panasonic typewriter can make graphs. It types in four different colors.

  Heather O'Rourke

  Color, Four, Different

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• I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.

  Alger Hiss

  House, Wonder, Amazed

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• I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.

  Frederik Pohl

  Morning, Block, Years

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

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Gun, Machines

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Notes of a Dirty Old Man”, p.47, City Lights Books

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• I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)

  Larry Wall

  Views, Architecture, Ought

  Usenet article <199808050415.VAA24026@wall.org>, 1998.

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• If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.

  William Feather

  Jobs, Men, Names

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• You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at...
  The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.

  Edward Steichen

  Wall, Museums, Guy

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• My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve. So I never have to worry about schedules. Some new thing is always exploding in me, and it schedules me, I don’t schedule it. It says: Get to the typewriter right now and finish this.

  Ray Bradbury

  Passion, Worry, Twelve

  "Ray Bradbury, The Art of Fiction No. 203". Interview with Sam Geller, www.theparisreview.org. 2010.

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• I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen in school notebooks. Then I got pretentious and started writing with a dip pen on parchment (I wrote at least a novel-length poem that way). Moved on to a fountain pen. Then a typewriter, then an electric self-correct. Then someone gave me a word processor and I was amazed at being able to fit ten pages on one of those floppy discs.

  Charles de Lint

  Notebook, Running, Writing

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• You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell?

  Jenkin Lloyd Jones

  Writing, Hell, Audience

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• If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one of the magazines and a leaping start on the ladder upward.

  James A. Michener

  Writing, Skills, Ladders

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• 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

  Children, Writing, Kitchen

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• I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy.

  Winston Graham

  Empathy, Creative, Suggestions

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• I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.

  Francine Pascal

  Pages, Next

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• I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.

  Alistair Cooke

  Writing, Talking, Years

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