Writer Quotes by Tom Robbins

Writing is the hardest physical work there is.

— Tom Robbins

“if this typewriter cant do it fuck it”

— Tom Robbins

A writer needs a life of introspection.

— Tom Robbins

“A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time.”

— Tom Robbins

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

— Tom Robbins

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

— Tom Robbins

Most novelists write about twisted lives.

— Tom Robbins

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

— Tom Robbins

almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial.

— 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

“this is not the first time that intimidation by typewriter has caused me to consider the pen.”

— Tom Robbins

Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory…

— Tom Robbins

“So it was that neither for the first time nor the last my verbal mojo, my knack for the written word, served…

— Tom Robbins

Don't talk about it - you'll talk it away. Let the ideas flow from your mind to the page without exposing them…

— Tom Robbins

Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.

— 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

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

Very few people can write in a crowd. This is a very solitary occupation. I have known people more talented than me…

— Tom Robbins

The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through…

— Tom Robbins

I started writing when I was 5 years old. I would dictate stories to my mother, and she would copy them in…

— Tom Robbins

“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

Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity…

— Tom Robbins

In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your…

— Tom Robbins

I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join…

— Tom Robbins

Much more than an entertaining set of exaggerated facts, fiction is a metaphoric method of describing, dramatizing and condensing historical events, personal…

— Tom Robbins

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

“Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family…

— Tom Robbins

Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending…

— Tom Robbins

Sometimes, though, I feel that pushing books is a whole lot like pushing medicine. Think of books as pills. I have pills…

— Tom Robbins

Whenever I finish a book, I go off and have some kind of adventure. Having had an adventure in my writing chair…

— Tom Robbins

“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

“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

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

— Tom Robbins

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

— Tom Robbins

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

— Tom Robbins

Above all, have a good time. If you aren’t enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it.

— Tom Robbins

What are the odds that two separate writers, strangers, a thousand miles apart, would each invent fictions in which guys take girls…

— Tom Robbins

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