typewriter quotes

   When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter.When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.

- Martin Louis Amis
  The Moronic Inferno,'Kurt Vonnegut'.

A chair should be judged by one's pants, a jewel by the light in a lady's eyes, a typewriter by the hovering fingers.

-Anonymous
  On good design. In Time,12  Jan.

A typewriter needs only paper; a camera uses film, requires subsidiary equipment by the truckload and Wellington several hundreds of technicians. That is always the central fact aboutthefilmmakeras opposed toanyother artist: he can never afford his own tools.

- (George) Orson Welles
  Letter in the New Statesman.

A writer of talent needs onlya typewriter and paper, a painter only needs brushes, canvas and paint, but I need a million dollars or moreto be in business.That's a hell of a business to be in.

- Langdon Winner
  In the Observer Magazine,7 Jul.