#typewriter

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

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

I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#between #even #fountain #fountain pen #i

A place that proves if you get enough talented people in a room, one or two are bound to offer some helpful advice. Kind if like monkeys with typewriters. ↗

— A. Lee Martinez

#monkeys-with-typewriters #writing #writing-advice

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#biggest obstacle #changing #necessity #obstacle #professional

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#been #every #fun #getting #great

Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running. ↗

— Gene Fowler

#i think #left #like #out #room

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#down #nothing #sit #typewriter #writing

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

— Alger Hiss

#amazed #chambers #day #die #got

I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: 'Oh, you're working on it right now?' ↗

— John Sayles

#door #had #here #i #i remember