Definition of Typewriter

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Typewriter

An instrument for writing by means of type, a typewheel, or the like, in which the operator makes use of a sort of keyboard, in order to obtain printed impressions of the characters upon paper.

One who uses such an instrument.

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Typewriter Quotations

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Ernest Hemingway

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
Tennessee Williams

A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.
Marshall McLuhan

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
Robert Benchley

I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.
Steve Wozniak

No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.
Lynn Abbey

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
Graham Greene

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.
Wole Soyinka

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.
P. G. Wodehouse

There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.
Anne Rice

Typewriter Translations

typewriter in Danish is skrivemaskine
typewriter in Dutch is schrijfmachine
typewriter in German is Schreibmaschine
typewriter in Norwegian is skrivemaskin
typewriter in Swedish is skrivmaskin

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