Valère Novarina The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet « David Mitchell Tom Vanderbilt Nathan Bransford, Author A Brief History of Typewriters presents The concept of a typewriter dates back at least to 1714, when Englishman Henry Mill filed a vaguely-worded patent for "an artificial machine or method for the impressing or transcribing of letters singly or progressively one after another." But the first typewriter proven to have worked was built by the Italian Pellegrino Turri in 1808 for his blind friend Countess Carolina Fantoni da Fivizzano; unfortunately, we do not know what the machine looked like, but we do have specimens of letters written by the Countess on it. (For details, see Michael Adler's excellent 1973 book The Writing Machine. Carey Wallace's 2010 novel The Blind Contessa's New Machine is based on the relationship between the Countess and Turri.) Numerous inventors in Europe and the U.S. worked on typewriters in the 19th century, but successful commercial production began only with the "writing ball" of Danish pastor Rasmus Malling-Hansen (1870). Christopher L. ... and the practical Blickensderfer.
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Des auteurs célèbres et leurs machines à écrire Si le cheval passe pour la plus belle conquête de l’homme, la machine à écrire fut sans conteste la plus fidèle compagne de l’auteur pendant près de trois siècles, même si la plupart d’entre nous ont plongé directement dans l’ère informatique. Je vous propose de découvrir quelques tandems écrivain/machine en images… Avant de s’appeler Mac ou PC, les joujoux extras des auteurs de tous bords avaient pour noms Remington, Olympia, Underwood ou Olivetti. Si elles sont massivement tombées en désuétude avec l’avènement de l’ère informatique, les bonnes vieilles machines à écrire sont encore utilisées par quelques irréductibles romanciers ou scénaristes par nostalgie, voire militantisme. Voici quelques auteurs célèbres et leurs fidèles outils: George Bernard Shaw Ernest Hemingway Carson McCullers William Faulkner John Cheever J. Tennessee Williams Françoise Sagan Nicolas Bouvier Patricia Highsmith Philip Roth Hunter S. Woody Allen Copyright©Nathalie Lenoir 2012 Auteur : Nathalie Lenoir
25 Insights on Becoming a Better Writer When George Plimpton asked Ernest Hemingway what the best training for an aspiring writer would be in a 1954 interview, Hem replied, “Let’s say that he should go out and hang himself because he finds that writing well is impossibly difficult. Then he should be cut down without mercy and forced by his own self to write as well as he can for the rest of his life. At least he will have the story of the hanging to commence with.” Today, writing well is more important than ever. Far from being the province of a select few as it was in Hemingway’s day, writing is a daily occupation for all of us — in email, on blogs, and through social media. So what can we do to improve our writing short of hanging ourselves? 1. Don’t just plan to write—write. 2. [The] Resistance knows that the longer we noodle around “getting ready,” the more time and opportunity we’ll have to sabotage ourselves. 3. Find your best time of the day for writing and write. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Treat writing as a job. 10. 11. 12.