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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm kind of a Luddite myself. I've got a bunch of typewriters at home. I'm a big fan of old technology.
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.
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.
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.
I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my 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 had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.
I am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter.
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.
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