Typing Skill Quotes

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

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

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

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

I have good hand speed.

A pen on paper is the ideal way for me. I am not really very comfortable with machines; I never learned to type very well.

Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.

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.

I've had someone, my assistant, type for me. I've done it that way for more than 50 years because I type with one finger, although quite rapidly.

I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I could still type - I hadn't done it for four or five years after the war. So I typed out a page and I showed it to my wife and she said, "Where did you get this?" I said I wrote it. "You wrote this?" It was something very funny. I went and wrote another page, another couple of pages, and by the time I was finished I had 13 little short stories, humorous short stories.

I'm great at fake typing but in real life terrible.

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

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.

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

I have always prided myself on if, hypothetically, the entertainment industry just dissolved, just went away today, I feel that I have enough marketable skills that I could still contribute to society and make a difference. I'm a very good typist.

When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type.

Well, my mother, she made me apply for a school where I was supposed to learn how to type. She said, well, instead of going to demonstrate she should at least [learn], because, everything was on strike. So we had to learn something in the meantime.

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.

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.