Which came first, the world of typewriter art or the, um, art of the typewriter world?  Our illustration of the typewriter world appears as an ad in Rod and Gun, 1891.

An illustration from Hitting the Dark Trail Starshine Through Thirty Years of Night by Clarence Hawkes (1915).  The caption reads: "Writing a new animal biography."

Writing and dreaming: an image and its gauzy double from Cornhill magazine, 1873.

See the explanation of our repository of ghostly images here.

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

An illustration from a 1916 issue of Scribner's magazine.  The caption reads: "And now you'll never, never write the great American novel!"

"Writers don’t have to be brilliant conversationalists; it’s not their job to be smart except, of course, when they write. Hazlitt, that most self-conscious of writers, remarked that he did not see why an author 'is bound to talk, any more than he is bound to dance, or ride, or fence better than other people. Reading, study, silence, thought are a bad introduction to loquacity.'" —Arthur Krystal, "When Writers Speak," Sunday Book Review