Typewriter Quotes

Dear friend Corona, Your letter made my wife and I feel so wonderful! Thank you for being such a good friend. Friends make their friends feel good when they are down…I thought this typewriter would suit you. Ask a grown up how it works. And use it to write me back. P.S. You got a friend in ME!

– Tom Hanks

In letter to Australian boy who wrote to him saying he was being bullied in school because his name Corona.

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

– Gerald Brenan

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

– Amiri Baraka

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

– Francine Pascal

I didn’t know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter.

– Mona Simpson

I like the sound a typewriter makes.

– Paul Auster

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

– P. G. Wodehouse

A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.

– Marshall McLuhan

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

I don’t have a computer. A computer’s a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

– Ray Bradbury

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

– Tom Robbins

I still use a typewriter from time to time, but because I can’t type as well as I used to, I really don’t use one very much.

– William Jay Smith