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

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

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.

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.

I don't control my writing - it controls me.

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

I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.