Alan Furst
Alan Furst

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.

Alger Hiss
Alger Hiss

I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.

Alger Hiss
Alger Hiss

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

August Wilson
August Wilson

The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter.

Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson

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.

Catherine Gaskin
Catherine Gaskin

Getting to my typewriter is something I push myself to, but once I am working, I work hard.

Catherine Gaskin
Catherine Gaskin

Although I long to get away from the typewriter, if I think I can produce a better opening or a better closing to a chapter, I'll change and change round again until I'm satisfied.

Charles J. Shields
Charles J. Shields

Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were about kindergarten age. From the start, they recognized in each other "an apartness," as Capote later expressed it; and both loved reading. When Lee's father gave them an old Underwood typewriter, they began writing original stories together.

Charles Krauthammer
Charles Krauthammer

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

Clarence Budington Kelland
Clarence Budington Kelland

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