Quotes About Typewriter

I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.

Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

The Mexican people, once they have happened on a good food, he thought, flay the thing to distraction. Ham and eggs every morning now for two weeks. Since arriving in Guanajuato, bearing his typewriter, it had been the same thing each morning at nine. He stared at his plate, gently grieved. (The Candy Skull)

When the typewriter stops in a New York office everybody's embarrassed; men start to quarrel or to make love to the stenographer or drop lighted cigarettes in the wastebasket.

Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder - and turn quickly to my typewriter.

The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.

I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to go to a typewriter and write poetry.

I seat myself at the typewriter and hope, and lurk.

his head bowed over a typewriter with the rapt concentration of a chimpanzee wondering how best to start Hamlet.

for the first time in a popular novel I was reading about wrongdoing by the then-sacred institution, the FBI. I was reading open criticism and accusation of J. Edgar Hoover himself. I was reading it not from the typewriter of a young radical but from that of an old novelist.

Who is the ingenious inventor of the type-writing machine that opens such a wide field of hope for the cautious caligraphist while it takes from the feeble spellist his only safeguard, illegibility?

Sobre el escritorio se encontraba la máquina de escribir portátil, marca Underwood, que Woodrow Wilson utilizaba

It must feel much like a typewriter key falling back into place after rising for a moment to strike the page.

She looks at something in her hand that's beeping at her. It looks like a TV remote fucked a little typewriter and this is the bastard offspring. She types something on the tiny typewriter with her thumbs, and smiles. "What's that you're playing with?" "You've never seen one of these? It's a BlackBerry.

That was why I resolved to write my first drafts in longhand, slowest of the various means of committing thoughts to paper, before I started doing later drafts on the typewriter; that is why I still do my first few drafts in longhand today;

My way of allotting my time is completely intuitive. I sit down at the typewriter every morning and start tackling whatever seems most pressing.

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

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.

Sir," the clerk said, "you choose to be disagreeable." "Nasty is the word you were looking for. I've changed my mind about the typewriter. But let me compliment you on your command of English.

an old Underwood office machine so big and black and ancient it looked as though it should come with a foreign correspondent attached.

I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.

Love, you poison my typewriter. How can I write with every key screaming? Since you've left, I've had hangovers they could name battleships after.

As soon as the typewriter ceased its rapid staccato, Philips tore off the report. He read it with Denise looking over his shoulder.

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the Universe and move bits of it about.