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Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.
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Gerald Brenan
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Writer
Born:
Apr 7
,
1894
Died:
Jan 19
,
1987
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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.
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Alice Walker
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You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.
Charles Bukowski
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I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.
P. G. Wodehouse
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I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.
Ray Bradbury
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I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.
Roger Zelazny
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If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.
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Readers
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