Tom Robbins Quotes on Writing
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I sense that novel of my dreams is in the Remington SL3 - although it writes much faster than I can spell.
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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.
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Her surname resembled a line from an optometrist's examination chart.
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I'll never write another novel on an electric typewriter. I'd rather use a sharp stick and a little pile of dogshit.
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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.
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'I'm looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.'