Tom Robbins Quotes

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Tom Robbins

Profession : Author

Birth : July 22, 1936

We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.

Tom Robbins

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.

Tom Robbins

Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.

Tom Robbins

There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.

Tom Robbins

Well, I have never, ever Googled myself.

Tom Robbins

When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.

Tom Robbins

In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.

Tom Robbins

What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy.

Tom Robbins

The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.'

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A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in contemporary Western literature. I think that's what appeals to the readers who are my fans.

Tom Robbins

If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.

Tom Robbins

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.

Tom Robbins

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

Tom Robbins

I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.

Tom Robbins

Most novelists write about twisted lives.

Tom Robbins

The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape.

Tom Robbins

I'm not infatuated with frivolousness. We're just good friends.

Tom Robbins

My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.

Tom Robbins