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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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• I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter.

  Caryl Rivers

  Writing, Chairs, Process

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• Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to the desk... roll a sheet of paper into the typewriter... and stare at it until beads of blood appear on your forehead.

  Jeff MacNelly

  Writing, Simple, Blood

  "Fictional character: Prof. Cosmo Fishhawk". "Shoe" by Jeff MacNelly, 1977-2000.

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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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• Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder - and turn quickly to my typewriter.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Morning, Staring, Turns

  "Church Times" Newspaper, December 30, 1983.

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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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• I write most of my first drafts on an old manual typewriter, a really old one. It's a big black metal "Woodstock" from about 1920. I try to write everything down at once, in one sitting. The longer stories in this collection are divided up into sections. Each section represents a different sitting, a different idea for the same story.

  Arthur Bradford

  Writing, Ideas, Black

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• I think being a writer was a crappy job when you just had typewriters. It was crappy when we just had ink and paper. And it's sort of crappy now. It's always just you and the page. That doesn't change.

  Colson Whitehead

  Jobs, Thinking, Ink And Paper

  Source: therumpus.net

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• ... photography is just a medium. It's like a typewriter. Photography as an art doesn't interest me an awful lot; as a participant, though I like to look at it.

  Ezra Stoller

  Photography, Art, Looks

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• 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

  Writing, Pieces, Magazines

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For me, form is something I locate in the process of writing the poems. What I mean is, I start scribbling, and then try to form the poem - on a typewriter or on my computer - and, by trial and error, try to find the right shape. I just try to keep forming the poem in different ways until it feels right to me.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Writing, Mean, Errors

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have many stories which don't make it to the computer. When I put it into the computer I make some changes and often add a few sentences here and there. I like the typewriter for first drafts because it means you can't change anything right away, you just have to put it all down.

  Arthur Bradford

  Mean, Here And There, Add

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• I don't like to see mistakes on the typewriter. I like a perfect script. On the typewriter I will sometimes leave a phrase that is not right, not what I want, simply because to change it would be a bit messy.

  Chinua Achebe

  Mistake, Perfect, Would Be

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• 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

  Writing, Thinking, Hands

  "A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. November 16, 2009.

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• When you make the film, there's a big difference between when you're in your own home at the typewriter, and when you're standing on a mountain, or on a street corner, and buses are coming by-it's a different reality. You make a million changes that were never in the script, but that reality dictates.

  Woody Allen

  Home, Reality, Differences

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• There was a typewriter buried alive in that horse, the one I road to get out of the flood.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Horse, Alive, Buried

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• Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week. You are cradled in a white paper cocoon tied up with typewriter ribbon.

  Edna Ferber

  Monday, Morning, Ideas

  Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”

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• I think I sit down to the typewriter when it's time to sit down to the typewriter. That isn't to suggest that when I do finally sit down at the typewriter, and write out my plays with a speed that seems to horrify all my detractors and half of my well-wishers, that there's no work involved. It is hard work, and one is doing all the work oneself.

  Edward Albee

  Hard Work, Writing, Thinking

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• His [Sam Fuller] self-discipline was amazing. No matter what happened, he'd always go out to his Royal Upright typewriter and just keep working on his stories, his "yarns" as he called them.

  Curtis Hanson

  Self, Yarn, Discipline

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I'm writing it's as if I'm the observer. It's as if that computer screen there -it used to be the typewriter - just kind of dissolves and there's this whirling tunnel of mist and there's a kind of proscenium arch, and then there are my characters, and they say what they say, and I laugh sometimes in surprise at what they say.

  Richard Bach

  Writing, Character, Tunnels

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• I use an IBM Thinkpad. I just use it like a typewriter, but when I started using it in 1987, I thought I won't be able to write anymore, so I thought I'd go back to the typewriter. But you couldn't go back to the typewriter after using the computer.

  Joan Didion

  Writing, Use, Able

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• I write fiction longhand. That's not so much about rejecting technology as being unable to write fiction on a computer for some reason. I don't think I would write it on a typewriter either. I write in a very blind gut instinctive way. It just doesn't feel right. There's a physical connection. And then in nonfiction that's not the case at all. I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand.

  Jennifer Egan

  Writing, Thinking, Technology

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• When I was younger, I dreaded having to write. I would find every possible excuse not to sit down at the typewriter (this was a long time ago). As I've gotten older, I've learned to enjoy putting sentences together, though I still believe that writing, unlike sex, is always better after you're through.

  Gustavo Perez Firmat

  Sex, Believe, Writing

  Source: www.gustavoperezfirmat.com

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• 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

  Makers, Electric, Traditional

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