Typewriter Quotes

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter. (Woody Allen)
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane. View quote
Graham Greene
Sometimes I think it sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running. View quote
Gene Fowler
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. View quote
Anne Rivers Siddons
I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that. View quote
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon. View quote
Robert Benchley
A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life. View quote
Martin Amis
I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood. (Wole Soyinka)
We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter. View quote
Allen Ginsberg
Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder - and turn quickly to my typewriter. View quote
Sydney J. Harris
I was living in a large apartment with no furniture, just a typewriter, and because I had nothing else to do with my time, it made me take my writing seriously. View quote
Simon Van Booy
One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out! View quote
Louis L'Amour
No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge. View quote
Lynn Abbey
Much as I like owning a Rolls-Royce, I could do without it. What I could not do without is a typewriter, a supply of yellow second sheets and the time to put them to good use. View quote
John O'Hara
I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter. View quote
Alger Hiss
I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop. View quote
Clarence Budington Kelland
My Panasonic typewriter can make graphs. It types in four different colors. View quote
Heather O'Rourke
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)
When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend. View quote
Theodore White
On the day you officially join the organization, you will hear a noise outside your home. It may sound like the howl of a wolf, the chirping of a cricket, the engine of an automobile, the keys of a typewriter, the striking of a match, or the turning of a page. The noise will come in the middle of the night, the middle of the morning, or, in very rare cases, late in the afternoon. Ask your parents what the noise was. If they reply 'nothing,' they are replying in code, because there is never 'nothing' outside one's home. If you are interested in volunteering, answer your parents with the following question: 'If there's nothing out there, what was that noise?' We will be listening, and will know it is safe to act. View quote
Daniel Handler
Mrs Thomas has promised me her typewriter, I'll take it now. View quote
John Bodkin Adams
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. View quote
Tennessee Williams