I started out when I was 29 - too young to write novels. I was broke. I was on unemployment insurance. I was supposed to be writing a Ph.D. dissertation, so I had a typewriter and a lot of paper.
I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.
In the future the way that Whittaker Chambers was able to carry out forgery by typewriter will be disclosed.
The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter.
I was the second-youngest child in a family that took up the better part of an entire pew at our Baptist church.
Getting to my typewriter is something I push myself to, but once I am working, I work hard.
Although I long to get away from the typewriter, if I think I can produce a better opening or a better closing to a chapter, I'll change and change round again until I'm satisfied.
When it's foggy in the pulpit it's cloudy in the pew.
Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were about kindergarten age. From the start, they recognized in each other "an apartness," as Capote later expressed it; and both loved reading. When Lee's father gave them an old Underwood typewriter, they began writing original stories together.
I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.
