Quote

I work with pen and paper. That's my favorite way to write. I love the way the ink sinks into the wood, soaks into the wood pulp. There's something about that process that's so organic.

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
Writing
Organic
Work
Wood
Something
Pens
Way
Woods
Love
Favorite
Soaks
Paper
Sinks
Process
Pulp
Write
Ink

More quotes by Tom Robbins

Image
It's good to bear in mind that like it or not, enlightenment has always been, even in a golden age, pretty much limited to an elite.
Tom Robbins
Image
what bothers me today is the lack of, well, i guess you'd call it authentic experience. so much is a sham. so much is artificial, synthetic, watered-down, and standardized...we're standardizing people, their goals, their ideas. the sham is everywhere.
Tom Robbins
Image
There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself.
Tom Robbins
Image
Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened!
Tom Robbins
Image
I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.'
Tom Robbins
Image
Reality whistles a different tune underwater.
Tom Robbins
Image
A child's mind is its living room it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.
Tom Robbins
Image
Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.
Tom Robbins
Image
The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.
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
Each time we exhale, the world ends when we inhale, there can be, if we allow it, rebirth and spiritual renewal. It all transpires inside of us. In our consciousness, in our hearts. All the time.
Tom Robbins
Image
Dreams don't come true. Dreams are true.
Tom Robbins
Image
True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced.
Tom Robbins
Image
Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.
Tom Robbins
Image
Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality that he has none left for the social graces.
Tom Robbins
Image
Bland writing - timid, antiseptic, vanilla writing - is nearly as unhealthy as the brutal and dark. Instead of sipping, say, elixir, nectar, tequila, or champagne, the reader is invited to slurp lumpy milk or choke on the author's dust bunnies.
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
Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half.
Tom Robbins
Image
We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.
Tom Robbins
Image
Our similarities bring us to a common ground Our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other.
Tom Robbins