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" A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences. "
Tom Robbins
How
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Lot
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" What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. "
Tom Robbins
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Good
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" 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 up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury. "
Tom Robbins
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" A writer needs a life of introspection. "
Tom Robbins
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Needs
" The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism. "
Tom Robbins
Ideology
Totalitarianism
End
" If little else, the brain is an educational toy. "
Tom Robbins
Brain
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Little
" To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen. "
Tom Robbins
Seattle
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Grow
" Most novelists write about twisted lives. "
Tom Robbins
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" I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore, India. "
Tom Robbins
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India
Next
" I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe. "
Tom Robbins
People
Universe
Pink
" At the typewriter you find out who you are. "
Tom Robbins
Find
Out
You
" In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded. "
Tom Robbins
Seattle
Aesthetic
Death
" Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. "
Tom Robbins
Immature
Humanity
Sober
" I have never ever Googled myself; in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things. "
Tom Robbins
Never
Think
Christian
" The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies. "
Tom Robbins
Men
Truth
Truth Is
" When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. "
Tom Robbins
Growing
You
Stop
" The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being. "
Tom Robbins
Loved
Unique
Love Is
" Well, I have never, ever Googled myself. "
Tom Robbins
Myself
Never
Well
" I eat so much mayonnaise they were going to send me to the Mayo Clinic. "
Tom Robbins
Going
Eat
Clinic
" My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy. "
Tom Robbins
Writing
Rich
Strange
" The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape. "
Tom Robbins
Me
Chosen
Entertain
" There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for. "
Tom Robbins
Living
Nothing
Things
" In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable. "
Tom Robbins
Got
Authority
Order
" The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce. "
Tom Robbins
Children
Fear
Truth
" I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know. "
Tom Robbins
Am
You
Difference
" People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up. "
Tom Robbins
Write
Things
Imagination
" 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
Books
People
Beach
" 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 imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.' "
Tom Robbins
Heart
Imagination
Writing
" Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels. "
Tom Robbins
Liberation
Transformation
Celebration
" There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven. "
Tom Robbins
Stories
Seven
Five
" To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. "
Tom Robbins
To Be Or Not To Be
Question
How