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I have a love/hate relationship with just about all technology in my life. My first typewriter in particular. I had a helluva time putting new ribbon on it.

It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the keys. I'm doing action stories, so that's the way I like to do it.

I have two vintage typewriters. One just about works and the other hasn't a hope in hell, bless it. But they're both beautiful, and they'll stay with me just as long as there's a roof over my head.

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.

Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric 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 just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

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

I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!