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• Several years ago we had an intern who was none too swift. One day he was typing and turned to a secretary and said, "I'm almost out of typing paper. What do I do?" "Just use copier machine paper," she told him. With that, the intern took his last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five blank copies.

  Dave Barry

  God, Years, Stupidity

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• I am not lazy.
  I am on the amphetamine of the soul.
  I am, each day,
  typing out the God
  my typewriter believes in.

  Anne Sexton

  Believe, Typewriters, Poetry

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.238, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing.

  Bernhard Goetz

  Gun, Skills, Shooting

  "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. 1996.

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• You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care. You can't ever be sure about that, but you need the sense that it's important, that it's not typing; it's writing.

  Roger Kahn

  Book, Writing, Pride

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• Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.

  Paul Kane

  Lonely, Writing, Computer

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• Right now my field must tackle describing a world where falling in love, going to war and filling out tax forms looks the same; it looks like typing.

  Quinn Norton

  Falling In Love, War, World

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• I bought a dog the other day. . . . I named him Stay. It's fun to call him. . . . "Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay!" He went insane. Now he just ignores me and keeps typing.

  Steven Wright

  Dog, Fun, Justice

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• I always carry a notepad with me, even on vacation. If I'm on the computer when the story 'hits', I open a Word document and start typing until I get it all out. I've got tons of notes that I never throw out. You never know when a story will strike!

  Franny Armstrong

  Vacation, Stories, Computer

  Source: romancing-the-book.com

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• I can't imagine why you would want to take your child to see what the career of a writer is like, because it mostly consists of sitting in a room typing, or going to the library and looking something up. Those are not exciting things to watch.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Careers, Library

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.

  Anne Enright

  Book, Writing, Pages

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.

  Harry Morgan

  Actors, Television, Hollywood

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was really relieved not to have to drag something in front of the camera; I could use a pencil and paper. A regular pencil and typing paper. That appealed to me.

  William Wegman

  Cameras, Use, Paper

  Joan Simon, William Wegman (2006). “William Wegman: Funney/strange”, p.105, Yale University Press

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• My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be editors must endure before they can ascend the ladder and begin acquiring books on their own. I spent a year filing paperwork, writing copy, and typing rejection letters.

  Lincoln Child

  Jobs, New York, Book

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• I feel connected with people because of their sense of humor, worldview, and what they think and feel about certain existential issues (things not affected, in my view, by if someone rides a horse or drives a car or talks only IRL or only by typing), not how old they are, what they use to convey what they think and feel about certain existential issues, or if we have both watched the same TV shows or looked at the same websites.

  Tao Lin

  Horse, Thinking, Issues

  "Tao Lin: They See Me Trolling". Interview with Peter Heyneman, brightestyoungthings.com. February 4, 2011.

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• Naturally, no writer who's any good at all would sit down and put a sheet of paper in a typewriter and start typing a play unless he knew what he was writing about.

  Edward Albee

  Writing, Typewriters, Play

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.61, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I prefer reading novels. Short stories are too much like daggers. And now that I'm done with my collection I'm more interested in different forms of writing and other kinds of narrative art. I'm working on a screenplay. But when I was working on Eileen, I definitely felt like I was taking a piss. Like, here I am, typing on my computer, writing the "novel." It wasn't that it was insincere, but there was a kind of farcical feeling I had when I was writing.

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  Art, Reading, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Creating the characters is the most creative part of the novel except for the language itself. There I am, sitting in front of my computer in right-brain mode, typing the things that come to mind - which become the seeds of plot. It's scary, though, because I always wonder: Is it going to be there this time?

  Elizabeth George

  Character, Creating, Creative

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• See what a good actress I am? I'm just typing over and over, "You're a good person, Mary Lynn! Hang in there! You can do it!"

  Mary Lynn Rajskub

  Over You, Good Person, Hang In There

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Nowadays, it is possible to perform various forms of Low-Impact listening via the telephone. The advent of technological advances such as computer games and online services (like ones that let you check stocks) have enabled Low-Impact listeners to endure family phone calls much longer than in the past. Dangers include mouse clicks, heavy typing, or a sudden loud buzzer that goes off when you have finished Boggle.

  Sandra Tsing Loh

  Past, Games, Impact

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• Imagine you are writing an email. You are in front of the computer. You are operating the computer, clicking a mouse and typing on a keyboard, but the message will be sent to a human over the internet. So you are working before the computer, but with a human behind the computer.

  Yukihiro Matsumoto

  Writing, Messages, Email

  "The Philosophy of Ruby". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. September 29, 2003.

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• Ruth Montgomery had a book I was reading called Aliens Among Us. She was an automatic writer. She used to go into a trance, and she would just start typing information, and then she would come out of her trance and read it and go, "Wow," and that was just the way she wrote her books.

  Sammy Hagar

  Reading, Book, Information

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• I am severely dyslexic, so I'm not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematics. I don't excel in anything except in things that had to do with creativity and things with my hands. I like to build things and take things apart.

  Raha Moharrak

  Writing, Creativity, Hands

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• Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming.

  Merlin Mann

  People, Sms, Literacy

  Twitter post from Aug 17, 2008

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• When I was in England, I had seen advertisements about typing agencies; I had learned that if you really want to make a good impression, you should have your manuscript well typed.

  Chinua Achebe

  Agency, Should Have, Want

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• I revise the manuscript till I can't read it any longer, then I get somebody to type it. Then I revise the typing. Then it's retyped again. Then there's a third typing, which is the final one. Nothing should then remain that offends the eye.

  Robert Graves

  Eye, Finals, Should

  Robert Graves, Frank L. Kersnowski (1989). “Conversations with Robert Graves”, p.102, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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