Typewriters Quotes - Page 5

• 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.

  Dorothy Parker

  Fun, Artist, Oil

  Quoted in Paris Review, Summer 1956

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• I have a love/hate relationship with just about all technology in my life. My first typewriter in particular. I had a helluva time putting new ribbon on it.

  Eric Stoltz

  Hate, Technology, Ribbons

  "Eric Stoltz: 'I felt really great after I lost my mobile phone'". Interview with Stuart O'Connor, January 14, 2011.

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• My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.

  Shakira

  Dad, Inspiration, Hero

  "Colombian gold". Interview With Ted Kessler, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2002.

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• I'm not a writer. I marvel at writing. I am sometimes absolutely astounded when I read something and I think how in the world did that man or that woman sit down at a typewriter, a computer or a pen and an ink well, and seemingly have nothing come between their heart and that pen.

  Kevin Spacey

  Writing, Heart, Men

  "An evening with Richard II". The Telegraph Interview, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 10, 2005.

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

  Ray Bradbury

  Morning, Noon, Clean

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

  Joan Didion

  World, Tiny

  "Didion: 'A Book of Common Prayer'". "NBC Today Show" with Tom Brokaw, archives.nbclearn.com. February 4, 1977.

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• When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Grandmother, Drawing

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• First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.

  Douglas Adams

  Technology, Discovery, Numbers

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• I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.

  David Mamet

  Thinking, Filing Cabinet, May

  "Arianna's latest battle: taking on geek civilisation" by Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2005.

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• I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.

  John Sayles

  Horse, Fall, Cowboy

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• When forced to leave my house for an extended period of time, I take my typewriter with me, and together we endure the wretchedness of passing through the X-ray scanner. The laptops roll merrily down the belt, while I’m instructed to stand aside and open my bag. To me it seems like a normal enough thing to be carrying, but the typewriter’s declining popularity arouses suspicion and I wind up eliciting the sort of reaction one might expect when traveling with a cannon. It’s a typewriter,’ I say. ‘You use it to write angry letters to airport security.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Airports, Wind

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Writing, Darkness, Black

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• I used to feel guilty about spending morning hours working on a book; about fleeing to the brook in the afternoon. It took several summers of being totally frazzled by September to make me realize that this was a false guilt. I'm much more use to family and friends when I'm not physically and spiritually depleted than when I spend my energies as though they were unlimited. They are not. The time at the typewriter and the time at the brook refresh me and put me into a more workable perspective.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Summer, Morning, Book

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Summer of the Great-Grandmother”, p.33, Open Road Media

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• There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets. . . when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through.

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Gun, Doe

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• Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task -- such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping -- I always look forward to rewarding myself with the small pleasure of getting back to my typewriter and writing something.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Sleep, Tasks

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• 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.

  David Duchovny

  Self, Discipline, Loathing

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• In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, Thinking, Satanic

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• I'd love to maybe try writing. I don't know if I'd publish anything, but as a hobby, it's really nice. I bought a typewriter, and I really like to write on the typewriter sometimes. It's a fun little hobby.

  Emma Roberts

  Fun, Nice, Writing

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• 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.

  Anne Rice

  Writing, People, Groups

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• When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don't have an audience; I have a set of standards.

  Don DeLillo

  Mind, Lasts, Standards

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• When you make the film, there's a big difference between when you're in your own home at the typewriter, and when you're standing on a mountain, or on a street corner, and buses are coming by-it's a different reality. You make a million changes that were never in the script, but that reality dictates.

  Woody Allen

  Home, Reality, Differences

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• There was a typewriter buried alive in that horse, the one I road to get out of the flood.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Horse, Alive, Buried

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• I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

  Tennessee Williams

  Failure, Night, Play

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• 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

  Thinking, Games, Video

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• If you want to be a writer, all you need is a piece of paper and a pencil, and I had a manual typewriter. It doesn't cost money to write. It costs money to make art. So I would just write. I would hand out stories in the classes in high school. And the teacher would say, "Whatever you do, don't become a writer."

  Tama Janowitz

  Teacher, Art, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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