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I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.

Tom Robbins

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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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I had literary interests my whole life. I decided at the age of five I was going to be a writer. So I had done a great deal of reading. I suppose I was more at home in Greenwich Village than, say, any of classmates from Warsaw High School. But in any case, it was an overwhelming experience for me. It took me some time to begin to assimilate it.
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