6 Tom Robbins Quotes on Writing

Tom Robbins quotes on writing

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

17. 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.

20. Her surname resembled a line from an optometrist's examination chart.

40. I'll never write another novel on an electric typewriter. I'd rather use a sharp stick and a little pile of dogshit.

104. On the poor use of grammar It's a matter of usage. If a house is off-plumb and rickety and lets in the wind, you blame the mason, not the bricks. Our words are up to the job. It's our syntax that's limiting.

115. 'I'm looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.'