Definition of Typewriter

Typewriter

An instrument for writing by means of type, a typewheel, or the like, in which the operator makes use of a sort of keyboard, in order to obtain printed impressions of the characters upon paper.

One who uses such an instrument.

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Typewriter Quotations

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

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
J. K. Rowling

A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.
Marshall McLuhan

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
Tennessee Williams

You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.
Shelby Foote

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
Robert Benchley

I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.
Steve Wozniak

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.
P. G. Wodehouse

There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.
Anne Rice

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
Graham Greene

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.
Wole Soyinka

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.
Matt Blunt

No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.
Lynn Abbey

I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: 'Oh, you're working on it right now?'
John Sayles

I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.'
John Sayles

I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.
Frederik Pohl

I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger.
Buchi Emecheta

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

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend.
Theodore White

I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy.
Winston Graham

Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.
Gerald Brenan

Much as I like owning a Rolls-Royce, I could do without it. What I could not do without is a typewriter, a supply of yellow second sheets and the time to put them to good use.
John O'Hara

I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.
Roger Zelazny

Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
R. L. Stine

My Panasonic typewriter can make graphs. It types in four different colors.
Heather O'Rourke

I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.
Alger Hiss

In the future the way that Whittaker Chambers was able to carry out forgery by typewriter will be disclosed.
Alger Hiss

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.
Clarence Budington Kelland

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Typewriter Translations

typewriter in Danish is skrivemaskine
typewriter in Dutch is schrijfmachine
typewriter in German is Schreibmaschine
typewriter in Norwegian is skrivemaskin
typewriter in Swedish is skrivmaskin

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