Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy. — 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
I had literary interests my whole life. I decided at the age of five I was going to be a writer. So… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I work with pen and paper. That's my favorite way to write. I love the way the ink sinks into the wood,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Very few people can write in a crowd. This is a very solitary occupation. I have known people more talented than me… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What are the odds that two separate writers, strangers, a thousand miles apart, would each invent fictions in which guys take girls… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Being able to create your own work, being able to indulge your own fantasies is so much better than journalism, so much… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
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 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
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
Get yourself in that intense state of being next to madness. Keep yourself in, not necessarily a frenzied state, but in a… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I go into a gallery or museum, and I realize that I don't have to formulate any opinions if I don't want… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better. — 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
