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An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought. Mignon McLaughlin
Aware that much of the story was out of his hands, he tried to exercise what control he could: he hovered around the reporters' typewriters as they wrote, passed them questions as they talked on the phone to sources, demanded to be briefed after they hung up or returned from a meeting. Now, gulping down antacid tablets, Rosenfeld grilled Bernstein and Woodward to find out how solid this latest story was.-- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward Carl Bernstein
Nothing is more frustrating than sitting in an office amid typewriters and mimeographers when you know what deus ex machina means. Florence King
If the thing bites down much harder I might wig out and demand beer... stay away from the phone, watch the red arrow... this typewriter is keeping me on my rails, without it I'd be completely adrift and weird. Hunter S. Thompson
One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out! Louis L'Amour
Often the things that pop out of my typewriter regale me, especially when I am trying to say something else and in a different way only to have a kind of metamorphosis take place during the act of typing andwhammo! a concept I hadn't counted on is strutting it's vaudeville on the page. Tom Robbins
Ray Bradbury quote: "Authors, full of evil thoughts, lock up your typewriters."
Authors, full of evil thoughts, lock up your typewriters. Ray Bradbury
Allen Ginsberg quote: "We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter"
We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter Allen Ginsberg
Robert Penn Warren quote: "You don't write poems sitting at a typewriter; you write them..."
You don't write poems sitting at a typewriter; you write them swimming or climbing a mountain or walking. Robert Penn Warren
Edward Abbey quote: "[R]eality and real people are too subtle and complicated for..."
[R]eality and real people are too subtle and complicated for anybody's typewriter, even Tolstoy's, even yours, even mine. Edward Abbey
If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that. Susan Sontag
The first two rooms were in the same state as the corridor. Dirty, and piled with junk. Dead typewriters, telephones, three-legged chairs. I was reflecting on the fact that there is nothing in any of the world’s great museums that looks quite as ancient as a ten-year-old photocopier, when I heard a noise. Hugh Laurie
Thomas Pynchon quote: "Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more..."
Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to. Thomas Pynchon
Only a hundred years ago the idea that an order might arise without a personal Author appeared so nonsensical to you that it inspired seemingly absurd jokes, like the one about the pack of monkeys hammering away at typewriters until the Encyclopedia Britannica emerged. I recommend that you devote some of your free time to compiling an anthology of just such jokes, which amused your forebears as pure nonsense but now turn out to be parables of Nature. Stanislaw Lem
David Gerrold quote: "I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands..."
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. David Gerrold

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