A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
That isn't writing at all, it's typing.
We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house or office, typing on your own.
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.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.
When I began to write and used a typewriter, I went through three drafts of a book before showing it to an editor.
Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.
A typewriter forces you to keep going, to march forward.
I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you've written. If you use a typewriter, you must retype if you make a mistake, and thus, you must re-examine every word.