#typewriter

I want to see an elephant hunt down a man for the sole purpose of collecting his teeth, while a chorus of typewriters sings songs that praises the bananas for their wisdom, leadership, and their high levels of potassium. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#bizarre #dada #funny #humor #hunt

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

#first #had #hate #helluva #i

A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#means #thought #typewriter

I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#block #cigarette #computer #did #down

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

#groups #may #meet #occasional #own

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who 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

#became #because #been #big #big idea

I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#down #even #five #four #i

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

#fall #figured #had #horse #i

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

— R. L. Stine

#bar mitzvah #first #i #mitzvah #received

You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybody's switching to a computer. And I'm sort of laughed at. ↗

— Robert Caro

#drafts #everybody #first #four #go