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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.

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

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

One person plus one typewriter constitutes a movement.

For your information, a good novel can change the world. Keep that in mind before you attempt to sit down at a typewriter. Never waste time on something you don't believe in yourself.

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

Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

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

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about.

My younger daughter told me recently that when she was a child she thought the typewriter was a toy that I went into my room and closed the door and played with.

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.

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

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.

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.

Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder - and turn quickly to my typewriter.

There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.

At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.

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.'

The best kind of writing, and the biggest thrill in writing, is to suddenly read a line from your typewriter that you didnt know was in you.

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.

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

I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.

The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.

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.

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

I had an old typewriter and a big idea.

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

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.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

Gazing at the typewriter in moments of desperation I console myself with three thoughts. Alcohol at six, dinner at eight, and to be immortal you've got to be dead.

I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel.

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.

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.

You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell?

I am not lazy. I am on the amphetamine of the soul. I am, each day, typing out the God my typewriter believes in.

I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

What should I do?" "Throw up in your typewriter every morning." "Yeah." "Clean up every noon.

Bless all useful objects, the spoons made of bone, the mattress I cook my dreams upon, the typewriter that is my church with an altar of keys always waiting.

I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.

I seat myself at the typewriter and hope, and lurk.

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.

Take a woman talking, purging herself with rhymes, drumming words out like a typewriter, planting words in you like grass seed. You'll move off.

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

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

I had one typewriter for 50 years, but I have bought seven computers in six years. I suppose that's why Bill Gates is rich, and Underwood is out of business.

They gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom.

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

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.