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When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.Collection: Typewriters
You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.Collection: Typewriters
The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.Collection: Typewriters
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.Collection: Typewriters
The manufacturers of mechanical typewriters believed that they had developed sufficiently when they introduced electric typewriters. Then came the PC, and the deeply traditional makers of typewriters disappeared from the market.Collection: Typewriters
While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.Collection: Typewriters
I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy.Collection: Typewriters
One person plus one typewriter constitutes a movement.Collection: Typewriters
I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.Collection: Typewriters
I was a radioman when I first went into the Navy, so I learned to type by taking Morse code. So I was using the typewriter from day one. My handwriting wasn't any good anyway.Collection: Typewriters
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.Collection: Typewriters
I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel.Collection: Typewriters
Standing on a ledge again. Everyone laughs at dancing monkey with the typewriter. Not for long, though.Collection: Typewriters
I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)Collection: Typewriters
Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to.Collection: Typewriters
The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.Collection: Typewriters
My boyfriend got me a computer three years ago. I'll admit it does make things a lot easier. When I was working on a typewriter and I whited out a line, often I would choose a word to go in the space just because it fit. Now I don't have to do that.Collection: Typewriters
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.Collection: Typewriters
We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.Collection: Typewriters
take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginningCollection: Typewriters
I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter.Collection: Typewriters
There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.Collection: Typewriters
Do some living and get yourself a typewriter.Collection: Typewriters
When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.Collection: Typewriters
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.Collection: Typewriters
You could walk around behind the typist and read the text, which was about hearing, and what you heard was the sound of the typewriter. Of course, this was a pre-electric typewriter, a typewriter that made noise.Collection: Typewriters
I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.Collection: Typewriters
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.Collection: Typewriters
The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!Collection: Typewriters
We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriterCollection: Typewriters
Whenever I try to do anything on a typewriter, it's like having this machine between me and the words; what comes out is not quite what would come out if I were scribbling.Collection: Typewriters
His [Sam Fuller] self-discipline was amazing. No matter what happened, he'd always go out to his Royal Upright typewriter and just keep working on his stories, his "yarns" as he called them.Collection: Typewriters
Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter.Collection: Typewriters
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.Collection: Typewriters
I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines.Collection: Typewriters
That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.Collection: Typewriters