Writing Quotes by Tom Robbins

Writing is the hardest physical work there is.

— Tom Robbins

I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life.

— Tom Robbins

A writer needs a life of introspection.

— Tom Robbins

Most novelists write about twisted lives.

— Tom Robbins

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

— Tom Robbins

“If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done.”

— Tom Robbins

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

— Tom Robbins

“In the novels he was to write as an adult, transformation (along with liberation and celebration) was a major theme.”

— Tom Robbins

Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be.

— Tom Robbins

I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and…

— Tom Robbins

Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better.

— 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

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

— 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

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

Bland writing - timid, antiseptic, vanilla writing - is nearly as unhealthy as the brutal and dark. Instead of sipping, say, elixir,…

— 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 had literary interests my whole life. I decided at the age of five I was going to be a writer. So…

— Tom Robbins

Get yourself in that intense state of being next to madness. Keep yourself in, not necessarily a frenzied state, but in a…

— 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

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 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

“All things considered, I’ve learned more from talking to painters than talking to writers. Not that painters are smarter than writers, such…

— Tom Robbins

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

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

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

Being able to create your own work, being able to indulge your own fantasies is so much better than journalism, so much…

— 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

A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of…

— Tom Robbins