I learned to distrust writers who talked about how they squeezed the blood onto the typewriter. They just don't want you to know how much fun they have - you'll resent it.
That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.
I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.
Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.
The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.
When you consider all the writers who never even had a machine. Who would have given an eyeball for a good typewriter. Any typewriter. All the ones who wrote on a matchbook covers. Paper bags. Toilet paper. Who had their writing destroyed by their jailers. Who persisted beyond all odds.
I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.
I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.
I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.
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.
You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
When I have a first draft, I have a floor under my feet that I can walk on. And then, especially with the help of the computer, rewriting is so easy to do with the computer, much easier than it used to be with the typewriter. So the books go through numerous drafts.
I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.
Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter. . . a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.
A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. . . . A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.
I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines.
I don't use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I'm a horizontal writer. I think better when I'm lying down.
