Quotes and Sayings About Typewriters

He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
-- A. E. Hotchner

#Reading #Writing #Typewriters

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 #Typewriters #Tables

This is the same problem I have with digital photography. The potential is always remarkable. But the medium never settles. Each year there is a better camera to buy and new software to download. The user never has time to become comfortable with the tool. Consequently too much of the work is merely about the technology. The HDR and QTVR fads are good examples. Instead of focusing on the subject, users obsess over RAW conversion, Photoshop plug-ins, and on and on. For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.
-- Alec Soth

#Photography #Technology #Typewriters

For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.
-- Alec Soth

#Technology #Typewriters #Needs

I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.
-- Alger Hiss

#Typewriters #House #Wonder

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 #Typewriters #Talking

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter
-- Allen Ginsberg

#Typewriters #Great Writers

When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending you can use machinery that thinks faster than you do. An electric typewriter is ready to go before I have anything to say.
-- Andy Rooney

#Writing #Thinking #Typewriters

There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.
-- Anne Rice

#Writing #Typewriters #People

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 #Typewriters

Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at.
-- Anne Sexton

#Love Is #Typewriters #Yesterday

A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.
-- Barbara Holland

#Writing #Cat #Typewriters

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

#Typewriters #Trying #Stories

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.
-- Billy Collins

#Typewriters #Novelists #Poet

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 #Typewriters

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 #Typewriters #Chairs

WHEN YOU LEAVE YOUR TYPEWRITER YOU LEAVE YOUR MACHINE GUN AND THE RATS COME POURING THROUGH.
-- Charles Bukowski

#Writing #Gun #Typewriters

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

#Morning #Writing #Typewriters

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.
-- David Duchovny

#Typewriters #Self #Discipline

My boyfriend got me a computer three years ago. I'll admit it does make things a lot easier. When I was working on a typewriter and I whited out a line, often I would choose a word to go in the space just because it fit. Now I don't have to do that.
-- David Sedaris

#Typewriters #Years #Space

When forced to leave my house for an extended period of time, I take my typewriter with me, and together we endure the wretchedness of passing through the X-ray scanner. The laptops roll merrily down the belt, while I’m instructed to stand aside and open my bag. To me it seems like a normal enough thing to be carrying, but the typewriter’s declining popularity arouses suspicion and I wind up eliciting the sort of reaction one might expect when traveling with a cannon. It’s a typewriter,’ I say. ‘You use it to write angry letters to airport security.
-- David Sedaris

#Writing #Airports #Typewriters

On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter.
-- Dorothy Parker

#Fun #Artist #Typewriters

In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare out of the window. Nowadays, because of the marvels of convergent technology, the thing you type on and the window you stare out of are now the same thing.
-- Douglas Adams

#Technology #Typewriters #Window

A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.
-- E. B. White

#Heart #Writing #Typewriters

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 #Typewriters

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 #Typewriters

I have a love/hate relationship with just about all technology in my life. My first typewriter in particular. I had a helluva time putting new ribbon on it.
-- Eric Stoltz

#Hate #Technology #Typewriters

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

#Writing #Bad Ass #Typewriters

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

#Typewriters #Pages #Next

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 #Typewriters