Typewriter Quotes
Nostalgic lines on typewriters, longhand, and the writer's craft
These typewriter quotes capture the nostalgia of writers who grew up tapping out manuscripts by hand, long before laptops existed, echoing themes found in nostalgia quotes.
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.
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.
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I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.
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I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.
Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.
I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.
I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.
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