Top 33 Typewriter Quotes

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Typewriters give you a visceral experience when writing. With that in mind, check out the top 33 typewriter quotes.

#33 – 30. Typewriter Quotes

33. Found in trees. Sometimes also in old silent movie theaters, seaside zoos, magic shops, hat shops, time-travel shops, topiary gardents, cowboy boots, castle turrets, comet museums, dog pounds, mermaid ponds, dragon lairs, library stacks (the ones in the back), piles of leaves, piles of pancakes, the belly of a fiddle, the bell of a flower, or in the company of wild herds of typewriters. But mostly in trees. – Michelle Cuevas, Confessions of an Imaginary Friend

32. I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this is the first attempt I have ever made & yet I perceive I shall soon & easily acquire a fine facility in its use. … The machine has several virtues. I believe it will print faster than I can write. One may lean back in his chair & work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don’t muss things or scatter ink blots around. Of course it saves paper. – Mark Twain

31. For most digital-age writers, writing is rewriting. We grope, cut, block, paste, and twitch, panning for gold onscreen by deleting bucketloads of crap. Our analog ancestors had to polish every line mentally before hammering it out mechanically. Rewrites cost them months, meters of ink ribbon, and pints of Tippex. Poor sods. – David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

30. A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It’s a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys. – Barbara Holland

#29 – 20. Typewriter Quotes

29. To increase the chances of a writer trying to kill themselves, cut off their hands. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana

28. A lot of novelists start late—Conrad, Pirandello, even Mark Twain. When you’re young, chess is all right, and music and poetry. But novel-writing is something else. It has to be learned, but it can’t be taught. This bunkum and stinkum of college creative writing courses! The academics don’t know that the only thing you can do for someone who wants to write is to buy him a typewriter. – James M Cain

27. Do some living and get yourself a typewriter. – Charles Bukowski

26. There’s a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they’d eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn’t true. – Ian Hart

25. 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

24. When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend. – Theodore White

23. 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

22. 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

21. The typewriter is indeed my passport into a world otherwise barred to me and my kind. – Suzanne Rindell, The Other Typist

20. There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. – Ernest Hemingway

#19 – 10. Typewriter Quotes

19. A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it. – Marshall McLuhan

18. The secret of successful writing lies in striking the right keys on the typewriter. – Evan Esar

17. I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters. – David Gerrold

16. I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. – Bill Hirst

15. The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter. – Paddy Chayefsky

14. I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit. – P. G. Wodehouse

13. People die from typewriters falling on their heads. – Jonathan Davis

12. People on the outside think there’s something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn’t like that. You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that’s all there is to it. – Harlan Ellison

11. How strange to remember typewriters, with their jammed keys and snarled ribbons and the smudgy carbon paper for copies. – Margaret Atwood, Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

10. Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here’s a typewriter, here’s a stencil, here’s a list of today’s appointments, and all the flies in all the ointments, the daily woes that a man endures — take them, George, they’re yours! – Ogden Nash

#9 – 1. Typewriter Quotes

9. I love working on a typewriter – the rhythm, the sound; it’s like playing the piano, which I do, too. – David Mamet

8. We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter – Allen Ginsberg

7. I had one typewriter for 50 years, but I have bought seven computers in six years. I suppose that’s why Bill Gates is rich, and Underwood is out of business. – Andy Rooney

6. I had an old typewriter and a big idea. – J. K. Rowling

5. I like the sound a typewriter makes. – Paul Auster

4. Buford, my beloved vintage 1930’s Underwood Universal Champion Portable typewriter. You are both my writing partner and my best friend. This journey you and I have been on has been fun. Although in 2016 you gave me carpal tunnel. In both hands. Didn’t think I knew it was you, did you? You sneaky sombitch. – A.K. Kuykendall

3. I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all — what do they want, a crowd looking over their typewriters? Or those who talk about having to stare at a blank page — do they want someone to write on it?- Wilfrid Sheed

2. At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me. – David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

1. At the typewriter you find out who you are. – Tom Robbins

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