Typing Quotes

• Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Communication, Skills

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Nov 13, 2011

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• That isn't writing at all, it's typing.

  Truman Capote

  Writing

  Quoted in New Republic, 9 Feb. 1959

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• I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.

  Carly Fiorina

  Phones, Way, Littles

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• I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.

  Jack Adams

  Tests, Newton, Staff

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• Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Years, Use, Literature

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• My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.

  George Weinberg

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.'

  John Sayles

  Character, Plot, Needs

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• Typing is no substitute for thinking.

  Richard Hamming

  Thinking, Substitutes

  "Structured BASIC programming". Book by John G. Kemeny, p. 118, 1987.

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• I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that.

  Carol Burnett

  Moving, Writing, Ideas

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• I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.

  Aberjhani

  Dream, Keys, Naked

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Favour, Form

  Marshall McLuhan (1969). “Counter blast [by] Marshall McLuhan”

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• I change my keyboard between every book. I usually shop around. I'm very passionate about the physical feel of pressing the keys. It's got to have the right springiness. I tend to find the built-in keys very unsatisfying, the keys are low-profile and don't really do anything - I want it to feel like I'm typing.

  John Green

  Book, Keys, Passionate

  Interview with Jade Chang, www.goodreads.com. December, 2012.

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• From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader.

  Adrian Frutiger

  Beauty, Reading, Learning

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• That's not writing, that's typing

  Truman Capote

  Art, Writing, Entertainment

  Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1985). “Conversations with Capote”, E P Dutton

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• The world is like a sheet of paper on which something is typed. The reading and the meaning will vary with the reader, but the paper is the common factor, always present, rarely perceived. When the ribbon is removed, typing leaves no trace on the paper. So is my mind - the impressions keep on coming, but no trace is left.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Reading, Mind, World

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• All experience is memory, and so everything you write about is from memory-unless you're writing about typing.

  Joe Haldeman

  Memories, Writing

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• After a while I thought it didn't make any sense to use a pick. It's kind of like typing with one finger on each hand instead of using all your fingers.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Hands, Use, Kind

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• Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature.

  John Allen Paulos

  Teaching, Math, Literature

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• I started typing diary in, I don't know, 1978 or '79, but then the computer changed that a lot. Because with the computer if you were writing and you realized you had three sentences in a row that started with the word "he," you could fix that right up, whereas on a typewriter you'd think, "Well, I'm not going to change the whole page. It's my diary." So that made a difference.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Thinking, Computer

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm not typing. I write only by longhand. I've always written first drafts by hand and then once I was into a second or third draft I wrote insert pages on a typewriter. But I got rid of all my typewriters about three or four novels ago and now I do everything by hand. I write by hand because it makes me go slow and going slow is what I like.

  John Irving

  Writing, Typewriters, Hands

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I can act... I do a little writing as well. And I'm good at typing. I'm a creative typist, actually.

  Chris Colfer

  Writing, Creative, Littles

  "Chris Colfer on Struck By Lightning, His Future on Glee, and Wanting the Rights to Candy Land". Interview with Jennifer Vineyard, www.vulture.com. April 24, 2012.

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• I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

  R. L. Stine

  Writing, Kids, Years

  "R.L. Stine Talks New Book, 'Red Rain'". Interview with Jackie Nash, October 10, 2012.

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• Typing is an essential skill, but it can be painful. Some children just don't know where the letters are. Typing a three-page story, when they have to spend minutes hunting for every letter, can take forever. Yet we tend to assume that children can type, partly because quite a lot of us know where quite a lot of the letters are, so we assume that children do, too.

  Susan Mitchell

  Children, Hunting, Skills

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• I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type, so I was typing other people's discharges and stuff. And my feeling was "Please, I've done everything I was supposed to do. Can I go home now?" That what I feel right now. I've written books. Lots of them. Please, I've done everything I'm supposed to do. Can I go home now? I've wondered where home is. It's when I was in Indianapolis when I was nine years old. Had a dog, a cat, a brother, a sister.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dog, Brother, War

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• When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Voice, Emotion

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