almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If you want to make a name for yourself, the oldest trick in the book is to attack what everybody else reveres. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“In the novels he was to write as an adult, transformation (along with liberation and celebration) was a major theme.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore, India. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“(Claude and Marcel LeFever were speaking in French. This simultaneous English translation is being beamed to the reader via literary satellite.)” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I never outline. I don't work from an outline. I have no idea where the book is going. I mean, even two-thirds… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Your author has found love to be the full trip, emotionally speaking; the grand tour: fall in love, visit both Heaven and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Courage is where you find it. Bravery that comes from a bottle-- or from book or from a sermon-- lacks the full… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The author isn't altogether certain that there is any such thing as exaggeration. Our brains permit us to use such a wee… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. A book may measure so-called reality as a clock measures so-called… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I finish the book so I can see how it's going to end. I write that first sentence, and if it's the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Whenever I finish a book, I go off and have some kind of adventure. Having had an adventure in my writing chair… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Sometimes, though, I feel that pushing books is a whole lot like pushing medicine. Think of books as pills. I have pills… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I don't think that a novel is supposed to be a guide book to happiness any more than it's supposed to be… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“A little boy, he can play like he's a fireman or a cop--although fewer and fewer are pretending to be cops, thank… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I’m always astonished when readers suggest that I must write my novels while high on pot or (God forbid!) LSD. Apparently, there… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I think too much is known about me already. I think biographical information can get in the way of the reading experience.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I was a medic in the Army. I really should have become a doctor. Sometimes, though, I feel that pushing books is… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“...on a number of occasions this book has made reference to magic, and each time you've shaken your head, muttering such criticisms… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Now, my all-time favorite accolade from a book reviewer was when Fernanda Pivano, Italy’s best-known critic, wrote in a leading Italian newspaper… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The female characters in my books tend to be independent, frisky, spunky, witty, emotionally strong, erotically daring, spiritually oriented and intellectually generous;… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Bland writing - timid, antiseptic, vanilla writing - is nearly as unhealthy as the brutal and dark. Instead of sipping, say, elixir,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Evidently, I'd suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“This sentence is made of lead (and a sentence of lead gives a reader an entirely different sensation from one made of… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I believe in everything; nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing; everything is sacred. Ha Ha Ho Ho Hee Hee.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The glue that holds the natural world together appears to be a harmonious balance of opposites: day and night, light and dark, winter and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
