“Oscar Williams’s new book is pleasanter and a little quieter than his old, which gave the impression of having been written on a typewriter by a typewriter.”

— Randall Jarrell

precedes by twelve years Truman Capote’s putdown of Jack Kerouac: “That isn’t writing at all, it’s typing.”; “from Verse Chronicle”, p. 137
Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)

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poet, critic, novelist, essayist 1914–1965

Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist

“A Verse Chronicle”, pp. 157–158
Poetry and the Age (1953)

“Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to.”

Thomas Pynchon (1937) American novelist

“Nothing I have ever written was given the slightest deliberation. It was there in the typewriter and it came out, a total bypassing of the brain.”

C. L. Moore (1911–1987) American author

In a 1980 interview with Jean W. Ross, published in Contemporary Authors Vol. 104 (1982)

“A journalist who has to borrow a typewriter is bad news.”

Alan Williams (novelist) (1935) novelist

Toomey, Philippa. "Tilting at windmills", London Times, 8 July 1978, p. 12.

“There is no such thing, wrote Oscar Wilde, as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. Presumably, then, Mein Kampf would have been all right had it been better written.”

Theodore Dalrymple (1949) English doctor and writer

Trash, Violence, and Versace: But Is It Art? http://www.city-journal.org/html/8_1_urbanities-trash.html (Winter 1998). <br class="br">City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“His weapon was the typewriter, He loved putting up the drafts of the ideology, which was a group consensus.”

Sinnathamby Rajaratnam (1915–2006) Early life

Lee Kuan Yew