Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Sedaris

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.

Charles Kuralt

That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.

Daniel Handler

Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter.

Charles Bukowski

take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning

Charles Bukowski

Do some living and get yourself a typewriter.

Charles Bukowski

I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter.

Billy Collins

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

Allen Ginsberg

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

Allen Ginsberg

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

Don DeLillo

When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don't have an audience; I have a set of standards.

Alger Hiss

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

Agatha Christie

There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.

Ray Bradbury

I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

R. L. Stine

Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

Theodore White

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.

Pablo Neruda

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

Nora Ephron

I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.

Paul Gray

The image of the reporter as a nicotine-stained Quixote, slugging back Scotch while skewering city hall with an expose ripped out of a typewriter on the crack of deadline, persists despite munificent evidence to the contrary.

Paul Auster

I like the sound a typewriter makes.

J. K. Rowling

I had an old typewriter and a big idea.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.

Marvin Minsky

A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they aren’t flexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it.

Man Ray

You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.

Howard Rheingold

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

Francine Pascal

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

Fran Lebowitz

I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines.

Graham Greene

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.

Ian Hart

There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.

Joan Didion

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

Lynn Abbey

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.

Olivia De Havilland

I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.

Steve Jobs

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Shelby Foote

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.