Typewriters Quotes - Page 10

• I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to go to a typewriter and write poetry.

  Patti Smith

  Art, Writing, Spiders

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Book, Feet, Firsts

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I write exclusively using computers. Pens and typewriters can fsck right off - I wrote my first half million words in my teens on a manual typewriter (had to trade it for a new one due to keys snapping from metal fatigue) so I am not a pen or typewriter fetishist.

  Charles Stross

  Writing, Keys, Teens

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• 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.

  Isaac Asimov

  Thinking, Minutes, Courses

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Beautiful, Sleep, People

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• Especially once those poetry events began, because, yeah, the stuff was still on the page, but the page was starting to spill into real space, spill into air, once you could hear it, once there was a typewriter, once there was a body of a typist, it was getting rid of the confines of the page.

  Vito Acconci

  Real, Air, Space

  Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.

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• You could walk around behind the typist and read the text, which was about hearing, and what you heard was the sound of the typewriter. Of course, this was a pre-electric typewriter, a typewriter that made noise.

  Vito Acconci

  Sound, Noise, Hearing

  Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.

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• For decades I'd flit from drawing table to typewriter to guitar with no sense of strain or contradiction. They all exercised the same psychic muscle (the Imagination), and working in one medium refreshed my appetite for the others.

  Peter Blegvad

  Guitar, Psychics, Drawing

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• 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

  Writing, Doors, Black

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• Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the least physical labor, the least material, and the one which can be done between shifts, in the hospital pantry, on the subway, and on scraps of surplus paper. ... poetry has been the major voice of poor, working class, and Colored women. A room of one's own may be a necessity for writing prose, but so are reams of paper, a typewriter, and plenty of time.

  Audre Lorde

  Art, Writing, Class

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• Entertainment must be a satisfying emotional experience, a stirring of the heart. We need all kinds of young men and women. Those people with an artist's eye and an executive's brain that we term directors. Those wrestlers with their souls and typewriters known as authors. The beggars on horseback called actors and actresses.

  Hedda Hopper

  Movie, Eye, Heart

  Hedda Hopper (2017). “The Whole Truth and Nothing But”, p.266, Graymalkin Media

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

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Miserable, Not Happy, Desks

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1939). “Writing is Work”

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• When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.

  Martin Amis

  New Life, Happens, Acquire

  1986 The Moronic Inferno,'Kurt Vonnegut'.

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• You can imagine what it was like for me to actually be sitting in a room with matching typewriters, working under the tutelage of this guy I so admired, both as a filmmaker and as a man.

  Curtis Hanson

  Men, Guy, Sitting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You get attached to the way you write, and I'm attached to notebooks. That's where I really write the plays. Just two or three pages at a time, then I transfer to the typewriter and rewrite while I type.

  Neil Simon

  Notebook, Writing, Play

  Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.

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• 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.

  Gyles Brandreth

  Food, Eight, Alcohol

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• 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 something else. It has to be learned, but it can't be taught. This bunkum and stinkum of college creative writing courses! The academics don't know that the only thing you can do for someone who wants to write is to buy him a typewriter.

  James M. Cain

  Writing, College, Creative

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• 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.

  Lillian Hellman

  Writing, Keys, People

  Lillian Hellman (1971). “The collected plays”, Little Brown and Company

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• 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.

  Steve Jobs

  Years, Stanford University, Google

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• One thing I'd do was put a great writer's book beside the typewriter and... type out a beautiful and moving paragraph... and see those sentences rising up... and... think, 'Someday maybe I can write like that....' It was like a dream of possibilities for my own self. And maybe I began to know that there was no other way for the sentence... to... arouse the same feeling. The someone writing whose words were rising from the typewriter became like a mentor for me.... You shouldn't do it more than a few times because you must get on with your own work.

  Gina Berriault

  Beautiful, Dream, Moving

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• Salinger is such a terrific writer; he did so many great things. He is one of those writers that I still reread, simply because he makes me see the possibilities and makes me feel like writing. There are certain writers who put you in the mood to write. In the way a whiff of a cigar will bring back memories of a ballgame on a Saturday afternoon, reading Salinger makes me want to get to the typewriter.

  Robert Cormier

  Memories, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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

  Fran Lebowitz

  Machines

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• Houses are the abiding joys; they are the most emotion-stirring of all things. An automobile is regarded with fond affection, a typewriter becomes the inseparable companion, clothes can stir sentimentality, and the bit of bric-a-brac is a toy one would weep to see torn away - but houses are real, deep, emotional things. How much excitement in the cutting of a window, what enormous importance in the angle of a roof!

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Real, Cutting, Emotional

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• Whenever I try to do anything on a typewriter, it's like having this machine between me and the words; what comes out is not quite what would come out if I were scribbling.

  Chinua Achebe

  Trying, Machines, Ifs

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• History shows us a lot of things. It shows why the Lord's Prayer includes the supplication: "And lead us not into temptation." In my day, dissertations were still written by hand, or drummed out with a typewriter. In the past, you had to round up the literature, find the books and find the passages. Nowadays you click on Wikipedia or Google and you have everything you need. This probably makes it more difficult to resist temptation.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Prayer, Book, Past

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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