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Writing Quotes by Tom Robbins
- I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.
- I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life.
- Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be.
- Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.
- Above all, have a good time. If you aren’t enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it.
- Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist…
- Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better.
- Don't talk about it - you'll talk it away. Let the ideas flow from your mind to the page without exposing them to air. Especially…
- Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending in mind before…
- A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.
- Most novelists write about twisted lives.
- My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.
- People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
- When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.
- 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'…
- I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and…
- In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk…
- 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…
- Get yourself in that intense state of being next to madness. Keep yourself in, not necessarily a frenzied state, but in a state of great…
- Writing is the hardest physical work there is.
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold