Quotes about typewriters
falling-in-love men typewriters
the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter, or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes T. S. Eliot
morning typewriters staring
Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder - and turn quickly to my typewriter. Sydney J. Harris
writing typewriters junk
If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that. Susan Sontag
thinking typewriters rooms
I wasn't prepared for this big room with clattering typewriters and teletype printers. You could hardly hear yourself think. Ray Kroc
typewriters who-you-are
At the typewriter you find out who you are. Tom Robbins
typewriters looks still-life-with-woodpecker
There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act.
buddhist real typewriters
What we, thanks to Jung, call "synchronicity" (coincidence on steroids), Buddhists have long known as "the interpenetration of realities." Whether it's a natural law of sorts or simply evidence of mathematical inevitability (an infinite number of monkeys locked up with an infinite number of typewriters eventually producing Hamlet, not to mention Tarzan of the Apes), it seems to be as real as it is eerie.
thinking typewriters games
I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen. Steve Wozniak
writing bad-ass typewriters
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. Ernest Hemingway
writing typewriters hands
I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.
typewriters ideas greatest-fear
I had an old typewriter and a big idea. J. K. Rowling
struggle writing typewriters
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 Guillermo Cabrera Infante
children writing typewriters
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
writing typewriters doors
When you write for a living and you can't do anything else, you know that sooner or later that the deadline is going to come screaming down on you like a goddamn banshee. There's no avoiding it...So one day you just don't appear at the El Adobe bar anymore; you shut the door, paint the windows black, rent an electric typewriter and become the monster you always were - the writer. Hunter S. Thompson
typewriters rooms
I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter. Howard Rheingold
lonely typewriters history
There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the history of their manufacture, which is filled with raids, battles, lonely pioneers, great gambles, hope, fear, despair, triumph. If some of our novels could be written by the typewriters instead of on them, how much better they would be. J. B. Priestley
book typewriters feet
When I have a first draft, I have a floor under my feet that I can walk on. And then, especially with the help of the computer, rewriting is so easy to do with the computer, much easier than it used to be with the typewriter. So the books go through numerous drafts. Philip Roth
beautiful typewriters vintage
I have two vintage typewriters. One just about works and the other hasn't a hope in hell, bless it. But they're both beautiful, and they'll stay with me just as long as there's a roof over my head. Matt Roper
typewriters mind kind
The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter. Paddy Chayefsky
typewriters hands worship
The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again. Pablo Neruda
yellow typewriters use
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. John O'Hara
typewriters bangs form
I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms. Nora Ephron
numbers typewriters statistics
If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.' Nassim Nicholas Taleb
writing typewriters names
An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought. Mignon McLaughlin
song writing typewriters
I edit as I go. Especially when I go to commit it to paper. I prefer a typewriter even to a computer. I don't like it. There's no noise on the computer. I like a typewriter because I am such a slow typist. I edit as I am committing it to paper. I like to see the words before me and I go, "Yeah, that's it." They appear before me and they fit. I don't usually take large parts out. If I get stuck early in a song, I take it as a sign that I might be writing the chorus and don't know it. Sometimes,you gotta step back a little bit and take a look at what you're doing. John Prine
writing skills typewriters
If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one of the magazines and a leaping start on the ladder upward. James A. Michener
sunset writing typewriters
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
inspiration writing typewriters
I write by ear. I tried writing with the typewriter, but I found it too unwieldy Groucho Marx
typewriters hands two
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. Graham Greene
writing typewriters long
To say, "Well, I write when I really get into it" is a bunch of bull. Put the paper in the typewriter, stare at it a long time, get snowblindness if you have to, but write something. Erma Bombeck
writing typewriters talking
After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in. Henry Miller
writing exercise typewriters
When I sit down at the typewriter, I write. Someone once asked me if I had a fixed routine before I start, like setting up exercises, sharpening pencils, or having a drink of orange juice. I said, "No, the only thing I do before I start writing is to make sure that I'm close enough to the typewriter to reach the keys." Isaac Asimov
thinking typewriters minutes
I type 90 words per minute on the typewriter; I type 100 words per minute on the word processor. But, of course, I don't keep that up indefinitely - every once in a while I do have to think a few seconds.