#typewriter

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

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

— Robert Benchley

#biggest obstacle #changing #necessity #obstacle #professional

People die from typewriters falling on their heads. ↗

— Jonathan Davis

#falling #heads #people #their #typewriters

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

Much as I like owning a Rolls-Royce, I could do without it. What I could not do without is a typewriter, a supply of yellow second sheets and the time to put them to good use. ↗

— John O'Hara

#good #i #like #much #owning

My Panasonic typewriter can make graphs. It types in four different colors. ↗

— Heather O'Rourke

#different #different colors #four #make #types

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me. ↗

— Anne Rivers Siddons

#closer #depends #down #easy #i

Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter. ↗

— Gerald Brenan

#miller #non-stop #really #someone #talker

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. ↗

— Graham Greene

#connected #course #does #filling #fingers

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

— Marshall McLuhan

#means #thought #typewriter