This baby (the Remington SL3 typewriter) speaks electric Shakespeare at the slightest provocation and will rap out a page and a half if you just look at it hard.

I sense that novel of my dreams is in the Remington SL3 - although it writes much faster than I can spell.

There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act.

Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.

I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all - what do they want, a crowd looking over their typewriters? Or those who talk about having to s…

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.