Quotes About Author

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.

I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.

I think I'm from the 18th century, not even the 19th. I don't even use a typewriter. I prefer longhand, and that's how I submit my manuscripts to my publishers.

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

There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifying - as long as I can sit at my typewriter, alone, for half a day.

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

I like the sound a typewriter makes.

When I began to write and used a typewriter, I went through three drafts of a book before showing it to an editor.

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.

I think there are some writers - like, if you read Kerouac, I think you probably need to take a little break before you sit down to the typewriter because he's the type of writer whose voice infects you.

Most of my early work was done on typewriter. And the only way to iterate drafts was to re-type it.

I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart.

If you think of the typical Herbalife distributor and their level of sophistication, to this day I still don't understand the marketing plan - true story.

I wouldn't necessarily consider myself the typical sci-fi genre fan. I do have a lot of sci-fi shows that I enjoy, but I wouldn't call it my favorite genre of all.

You could do a 'Les Mis'-type musical about Hamilton, but it would have to be 12 hours long, because the amount of words on the bars when you're writing a typical song - that's maybe got 10 words per line.

My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.

One of the things that I have learned since trying to bring in an interesting story in under 28 pages is that we already agree on great chunks of typical superhero stories.

With 'Brick,' the style with language and the way it was shot was to create a world obviously elevated from the very first frame above a typical high school.

Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype.

The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year.

I do more films than television, and in Mexico, they are more situational comedies - not the typical telenovela.

If there was such a thing as a typical English gentleman in rock music, then it was Jon Lord.

Though the concept of the show revolves around a love layer, 'Ek Duje Ke Vaaste' has a very unique storyline. It is not a typical love story, and I am glad to be a part of this show.