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typewriter

Noun

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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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter. Woody Allen

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

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

Sometimes I think it sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running. Gene Fowler

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me. Anne Rivers Siddons

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

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