Typewriters Quotes - Page 3

• 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.

  William Saroyan

  Names, White, Plot

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• 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.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Hands, People

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has to be exciting, instantaneous and it has to be a surprise. Then it all comes blurting out and it’s beautiful. I’ve had a sign by my typewriter for 25 years now which reads, ‘DON’T THINK!’

  Ray Bradbury

  Beautiful, Writing, Thinking

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• Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy to finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one area where I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter, and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Daughter, Determination, Rocks

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• I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects- devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells. ... He took it home to Boston, and my morals began to improve, but his have never recovered.

  Mark Twain

  Character, Home, Two

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

  Howard Rheingold

  Rooms

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• One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out!

  Louis L'Amour

  Daughter, Children, Writing

  Louis L'Amour (2017). “Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 1: Unfinished Manuscripts, Mysterious Stories, and Lost Notes from One of the World's Most Popular Novelists”, p.25, Bantam

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

  Mignon G. Eberhart

  Writing, Seats

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• 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.

  James N. Frey

  Block, Next, Easier

  James N. Frey (2010). “How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling”, p.168, St. Martin's Press

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• I have had the irreplaceable opportunity of learning my profession with the proper tools, the most important of which is not a pencil or a typewriter, but the necessary time to think before using them.

  Moss Hart

  Time, Opportunity, Thinking

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• You can write a letter with a typewriter, a pencil, or a crayon. What you have to say is the important thing.

  Paul Strisik

  Writing, Important, Letters

  Paul Strisik, Charles Movalli (1980). “The art of landscape painting”

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• 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.

  Lynn Abbey

  Trying, Finals, Use

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• I sometimes mistake my typewriter for my teeth, because the more I bite the more my column will be read.

  Sheilah Graham Westbrook

  Mistake, Teeth, Sometimes

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• You can lie to your wife or your boss, but you cannot lie to your typewriter. Sooner or later you must reveal your true self in your pages.

  Leon Uris

  Lying, Self, Wife

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• 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.

  Larry L. King

  Writing, Thrill, Lines

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• Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at.

  Anne Sexton

  Love Is, Yesterday, And Love

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Alec Soth

  Technology, Needs, Good Work

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• I like the idea of being a novelist. I picture myself on the coast, the wind in my hair, horses galloping around me as I sit at my typewriter in the middle of a field.

  Sara Cox

  Horse, Hair, Wind

  "Interrogation: Sara Cox". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. March 2, 2008.

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• Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Writing, Grandmother, Florida

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• I got so discouraged, I almost stopped writing. It was my 12-year-old son who changed my mind when he said to me, "Mother, you've been very cross and edgy with us and we notice you haven't been writing. We wish you'd go back to the typewriter. That did a lot of good for my false guilts about spending so much time writing. At that point, I acknowledged that I am a writer and even if I were never published again, that's what I am."

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Mother, Writing, Son

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• 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.

  Agatha Christie

  Agony, Feelings, Want

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

  Alan Moore

  Writing, Good Day, Emotional

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• 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

  Art, Falling In Love, Men

  T. S. Eliot (1998). “The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Writing, Junk, Complicated

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• 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.

  Anne Sexton

  Women, Moving, Talking

  Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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