Typewriters Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• There are moments when I cannot bear this unremitting consciousness. It knows only itself. Awake, I am in a continuum with my dreams. I feel my typewriters, my table, my chair to have that assurance of a solid world, where things take up space, where is not the endless emptiness of insubstantial thought that leads to nowhere but itself. My memories pale as I prevail upon them again and again. They become more and more ghostly. I fear nothing so much as losing them altogether and having only my blank endless mind to live in.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Dream, Memories, Space

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

  Jenkin Lloyd Jones

  Writing, Hell, Audience

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• Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than the story. The words sit there on the page like coins, with their own opacity, as though they're there for their own sake. "A man goes into a phone booth, stirring coins in his palm." "Stirring" is such an obviously selected word. You can feel the writer looking for the word as he sat at the typewriter.

  Leonard Michaels

  Men, Phones, Feelings

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• 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

  Writing, Keys, Names

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.69, BookBaby

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• 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

  Thinking, Causes, Sometimes

  Nikki Giovanni (1975). “The women and the men”, William Morrow &Company

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• When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

  Barry Lopez

  Trying, Stories, Paper

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 30, 2010.

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• The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.

  Pablo Neruda

  Hands, Worship, Intimacy

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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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• 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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• My art school rejection letter arrived as a cold manila fist that closed around my fragile hopes ... The fear was practically edible. Nothing would happen unless I get out and make it happen. Then, as if handling me the keys to the jet pack, my dad bought me a typewriter and a taped message to the inside of its case: "Son - the world is waiting to hear from you".

  Grant Morrison

  Art, Dad, School

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• Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.

  Anne Rivers Siddons

  Book, Writing, Veins

  "Author Anne Rivers Siddons on her book ‘Nora, Nora’". Live chat, www.cnn.com. August 1, 2000.

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Long, Crafts, Modern

  T. S. Eliot (2011). “The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 1: 1898-1922”, p.240, Faber & Faber

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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 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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