Famous Quotes & Sayings

Olivia De Havilland

I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.

Marvin Minsky

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.

Theodore White

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.

Man Ray

You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.

Joan Didion

I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter.

Lynn Abbey

No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.

Paul Gray

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.

Paul Auster

I like the sound a typewriter makes.

R. L. Stine

Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.

Fran Lebowitz

I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines.

William Saroyan

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.

Winston Graham

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.