„take a writer away from his typewriterand all you have leftisthe sicknesswhich started himtypingin thebeginning“

— Charles Bukowski
„In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare out of the window. Nowadays, because of the marvels of convergent technology, the thing you type on and the window you stare out of are now the same thing.“
— Douglas Adams
„If you ever meet the man who could take advantage of Isabelle, you’ll have to let me know. I’d like to shake his hand. Or run away from him very fast, I’m not sure which.“
— Cassandra Clare
„We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter“
— Allen Ginsberg
„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.“
— Charles Bukowski
„There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers.“
— Ayn Rand