When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains among the buffalo. Ofte….
I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text..
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….
The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me..
Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it..
I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter..
A lot of novelists start late-Conrad, Pirandello, even Mark Twain. When you're young, chess is all right, and music and poetry. But novel-writing is ….
You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk away the next time..
My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve. So I never have to worry about schedul….
Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies in all the ointme….
I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all — what do they want, a crowd looking over their typewriters? Or those who talk about h….
I wasn't prepared for this big room with clattering typewriters and teletype printers. You could hardly hear yourself think..
You can write a letter with a typewriter, a pencil, or a crayon. What you have to say is the important thing..
Do some living and get yourself a typewriter..
I was a radioman when I first went into the Navy, so I learned to type by taking Morse code. So I was using the typewriter from day one. My handwriti….
When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend..
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….
I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop..
One person plus one typewriter constitutes a movement..
That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it..
Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to the desk... ….