Selectric Quotes

#1. I remember my father banging away on an IBM Selectric in the garage. He wrote his first novels on that machine. I remember its pebbly surface, its cold heft. It made its mark, literally and violently.

Jesse Kellerman

#2. My big dream back then was to buy an IBM Selectric. I still have that dream. I really ought to buy a word-processor. Half the cabbies at Rocky own computers. They tell me they can write failed novels ten times faster on a PC.

Gary Reilly

#3. Jack quit his advertising job and devoted himself to the life of the pen. Or rather, to the life of the Remington, soon to be replaced with an IBM Selectric, with the bouncing ball that let you change the typeface. Now that was cool!

Margaret Atwood

#4. In order for me to parent well I have to empathize and stay open with my son.

Amber Valletta

#5. Whether you're an unpublished novelist or a sixteen-time New York Times bestselling author, you can always improve your craft. You can always become a better writer.

Robert Dugoni

#6. We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.

Sheryl Sandberg

#7. I'm proud that with 'Bright Eyes' we've always experimented and tried to make a different record every time out.

Conor Oberst

#8. It is easier to diminish God than it is to enlarge one's heart.

Mike Mason

#9. Some are born Welsh. Some achieve Welshness. I am going to thrust myself upon Wales.

Jasper Rees

#10. Get your butt in a chair and write. If it comes out weak or bad or clunky or ordinary, then accept that this happens to everyone. Everyone. Get it down, get it done, and fix it in the rewrite. Just like everyone from Stephen King to J. K. Rowling to Chuck Palahniuk does.

Jonathan Maberry