„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
„We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter“
— Allen Ginsberg
„take a writer away from his typewriterand all you have leftisthe sicknesswhich started himtypingin thebeginning“
— Charles Bukowski
„If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows, and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things only because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„And you will ask: why doesn't his poetryspeak of dreams and leavesand the great volcanoes of his native land?Come and see the blood in the streets.Come and seethe bloods in the streets.Come and see the bloodin the streets!“
— Pablo Neruda
„Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.“
— Roald Dahl
„There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„Your righteous eyes, your laconictrigger-fingerspeople the streets with villains:as you move, the air in front of youblossoms with targets and you leave behind you a heroictrail of desolation“
— Margaret Atwood