Robert Stone Quotes

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.

I had spent years in the United States military. Specifically in the U.S. Navy.

I type 90 words per minute on the typewriter; I type 100 words per minute on the word processor. But, of course, I don't keep that up indefinitely - every once in a while I do have to think a few seconds.

The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.

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.

I write by ear. I tried writing with the typewriter, but I found it too unwieldy

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes

I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.

The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.

We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.

I'm not in show business; I'm in the communications business. That's what it's about for me.

He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.

Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter.

I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this is the first attempt I have ever made & yet I perceive I shall soon & easily acquire a fine facility in its use. ... The machine has several virtues. I believe it will print faster than I can write. One may lean back in his chair & work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around. Of course it saves paper.

When forced to leave my house for an extended period of time, I take my typewriter with me, and together we endure the wretchedness of passing through the X-ray scanner. The laptops roll merrily down the belt, while I’m instructed to stand aside and open my bag. To me it seems like a normal enough thing to be carrying, but the typewriter’s declining popularity arouses suspicion and I wind up eliciting the sort of reaction one might expect when traveling with a cannon. It’s a typewriter,’ I say. ‘You use it to write angry letters to airport security.

Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years.

The quality of business communications has become poorer in recent years as people avoid phone calls and face-to-face meetings, I can only assume, in some misguided quest for efficiency.

Do some living and get yourself a typewriter.

To become a master communicator: shut your mouth & listen first.

I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.

One person plus one typewriter constitutes a movement.

I'm such a slow writer I have no need for anything as fast as a word processor. I don't need anything so snappy. I write so slowly that I could write in my own blood without hurting myself.

I used to go round to Aunt Mimi's house and John would be at the typewriter, which was fairly unusual in Liverpool. None of my mates even knew what a typewriter was. Well they knew what it was but they didn't hae one. Nobody had one.