Quote

Most novelists write about twisted lives.

Tom Robbins

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
Author
Autobiographer
Biographer
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Blowing Rock
North Carolina
Thomas Eugene Robbins
Twisted
Novelists
Lives
Write
Writing

More quotes by Tom Robbins

Image
The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure)
Tom Robbins
Image
Ultimately, the roast turkey must be regarded as a monument to Boomer's love.
Tom Robbins
Image
Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going.
Tom Robbins
Image
I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.
Tom Robbins
Image
Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the nature of the universe -- I think that word would be paradox. That's true at the subatomic level, right through sociological, psychological, philosophical levels on up to cosmic levels.
Tom Robbins
Image
Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.
Tom Robbins
Image
Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.
Tom Robbins
Image
Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes.
Tom Robbins
Image
When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders.
Tom Robbins
Image
Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.
Tom Robbins
Image
…he glanced over his shoulder at her, regarding her, as he often did before they made love, as if she were a lost continent about to be rediscovered.
Tom Robbins
Image
She needed help, but God was in a meeting whenever she rang.
Tom Robbins
Image
Don't be outraged, be outrageous.
Tom Robbins
Image
In East of Eden, John Steinbeck wrote that there's never been a great creative collaboration. When the Beatles first burst on the scene, I thought they were proving him wrong. Later, we learned that Lennon and McCartney had each composed their pop masterpieces separately, individually. So it goes.
Tom Robbins
Image
Survival is not important. What matters is how you survive.
Tom Robbins
Image
Approfondement is a French word that means 'playing easily in the deep.'
Tom Robbins
Image
As a child, I was an imaginary playmate.
Tom Robbins
Image
I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors.
Tom Robbins
Image
This is the room where Jezebel frescoed her eyelids with history's tragic glitter
Tom Robbins
Image
If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws.
Tom Robbins