Quotes of: Typewriter Keyword

On that piece of white paper, Sam wrote, "Write about me sometime." And I typed back to her, standing right there in her bedroom. I just typed. "I will." And I felt good that those were the first two words that I ever typed on my new old typewriter t...

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.

Howard Rheingold

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.

Robert Benchley

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

Heather O'Rourke

If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done.

Still Life with Woodpecker

I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter.

Mona Simpson

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

Francine Pascal

Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.

Gerald Brenan

I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter.

Joan Didion

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

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'...

Charles Bukowski

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

Howl and Other Poems

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Ernest Hemingway

Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

Gene Fowler

I'm kind of a Luddite myself. I've got a bunch of typewriters at home. I'm a big fan of old technology.

Kerry Bishe

There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.

Ernest Hemingway

Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.

Raymond Chandler

My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.

Shakira

I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

David Mamet

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

Arthur Eddington

As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.

Jo Nesbo