Donald Hall Quotes

I don't type fast. I type with three fingers - two on one hand, and I only get one going on the other. I think my thumb's in there, but I'm not sure. I may be no better than an orangutan when it comes to that.

The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type.

Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.

On the traditional computer keyboard, I'm a super-fast touch typist. I mastered touch typing in high school.

I was the fastest typist in my school, and I had an obsession with spelling and memorizing.

I type 40 words per minute on a normal computer with my left foot. And with two cups of coffee, I can do 53 words per minute.

If you type adeptly with 10 fingers, you're typing faster than your mind is working.

I still use a typewriter from time to time, but because I can't type as well as I used to, I really don't use one very much.

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.

I type a 101 words a minute. But it's in my own language.

No matter who you are or what you plan to do in life, learn to type!

When I was finishing grad school, the hot new PC was the IBM 286. Bulky. Immobile. Expensive. I touched-typed easily and quickly, but nevertheless, I realized that the machine was a chain.

I can't type. Can't do it.

The only thing I can do is type. I learned that when I was 13.

My fingers are not as fast as my brain - which isn't that much to type home about anyway.

He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline.

I'm really fortunate that I type 120 words a minute.

If I had nine of my fingers missing I wouldn't type any slower.

With a computer, you make your changes on the screen and then you print out a clean copy. With a typewriter, you can't get a clean manuscript unless you start again from scratch. It's an incredibly tedious process.

I have a Blackberry which I use, but I am one of those people who can only type on it with one hand.

I type even faster than I talk. I'm very proud of that. I type so fast. And I have to because the characters are living in real time and I've got to keep up with them. It's a miracle they even give me a royalty.

The best class I ever took in high school was typing.

I am a terrible, terrible typist. I could not have been a writer in the age of typewriters.

I have good hand speed.

The secret of successful writing lies in striking the right keys on the typewriter.