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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.

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

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.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter.

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

Sometimes I can think of so many ways of expressing myself that I feel I'm an old typewriter, and too many keys come forward at once - and I get jammed.

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.