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You Know Quotes by 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 by any novelist…
- 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…
- I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.
- 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…
- You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.
- You know what I mean? Real and unreal, beautiful and strange, like a dream. It got me high as a kite, but it didn’t last…
- Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as…
- You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.
- You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make…
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