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

- Francine Pascal

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.

- Lynn Abbey

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

- Judy Blume

A typewriter forces you to keep going, to march forward.

- James McBride

I don't read anything electronically. I don't write electronically, either - except e-mails to my family and friends. I write in longhand. I have always written first drafts by hand, but I used to write subsequent drafts and insert pages on a typewriter.

- John Irving

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

- Joan Didion

My Panasonic typewriter can make graphs. It types in four different colors.

- Heather O'Rourke

I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.

- Howard Rheingold

Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.

- Gerald Brenan

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

- Gene Fowler

I started out when I was 29 - too young to write novels. I was broke. I was on unemployment insurance. I was supposed to be writing a Ph.D. dissertation, so I had a typewriter and a lot of paper.

- Alan Furst

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

- Ernest Hemingway

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

- Clarence Budington Kelland

I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.

- Charles Krauthammer

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

- Charles Bukowski

I am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter.

- Charles Bukowski

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

- Barry Lopez

Sometimes I can think of so many ways of expressing myself that I feel I'm an old typewriter, and too many keys come forward at once - and I get jammed.

- Boris Johnson

In the future the way that Whittaker Chambers was able to carry out forgery by typewriter will be disclosed.

- Alger Hiss

There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.

- Anne Rice