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

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

When I began to write and used a typewriter, I went through three drafts of a book before showing it to an editor.

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 kind of like to write fast. It keeps the pacing up. And it keeps me off the streets.

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 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.