“I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.”

“One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out!”

“If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that.”

“I could only write at the beach, and I kept getting sand in my typewriter.”

“(Sylvia at typewriter) For feminine protection, every day use a hand grenade.”

“"People die from typewriters falling on their heads." (talking about taking chances because you can die at any moment.)”

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

“There were a lot of people who were willing to write a letter for me. Not because I was academically inclined, but because I worked hard.”

“There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets… when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through.”

“clatter of a typewriter suggests that you're actually building something.”