Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kuralt

That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.

Daniel Handler

Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter.

Billy Collins

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

Charles Bukowski

take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning

Charles Bukowski

Do some living and get yourself a typewriter.

Charles Bukowski

I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter.

Allen Ginsberg

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

Allen Ginsberg

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

Alger Hiss

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

Don DeLillo

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.

Andy Rooney

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.

T. S. Eliot

Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.

Steve Jobs

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.

Thomas Pynchon

Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to.

Tom Robbins

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

Tom Robbins

There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act.

Ray Bradbury

I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

Theodore White

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

Paddy Chayefsky

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

Pablo Neruda

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

Nora Ephron

I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.

Marvin Minsky

A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they aren’t flexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it.

Francine Pascal

I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Beck

I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.

Barry Lopez

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

Graham Greene

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.

Howard Rheingold

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

Ian Hart

There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.

J. K. Rowling

I had an old typewriter and a big idea.

R. L. Stine

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

Paul Gray

The image of the reporter as a nicotine-stained Quixote, slugging back Scotch while skewering city hall with an expose ripped out of a typewriter on the crack of deadline, persists despite munificent evidence to the contrary.

Paul Auster

I like the sound a typewriter makes.