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Nostalgic lines on typewriters, longhand, and the writer's craft

These typewriter quotes capture the nostalgia of writers who grew up tapping out manuscripts by hand, long before laptops existed, echoing themes found in nostalgia quotes.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by William Jay Smith

Nov 07, 2020

I think I'm from the 18th century, not even the 19th. I don't even use a typewriter. I prefer longhand, and that's how I submit my manuscripts to my publishers.

Quotes by Ruskin Bond

Phones
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.

Quotes by Patrick Carman

Just
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Nov 07, 2020

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

Quotes by P. G. Wodehouse

Mother
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Nov 07, 2020

I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.

Quotes by Octavia E. Butler

Really
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Quotes by Gerald Brenan

Pages
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.

Quotes by Francine Pascal

Nov 07, 2020

I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.

Quotes by Charles Krauthammer

Fellowship
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Nov 07, 2020

I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.

Quotes by Amiri Baraka

Several speak to how writing tools shape identity, from authors who still prefer longhand to those amused by anyone handed a typewriter, a contrast worth exploring alongside technology quotes.

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