Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom. "
Tom Robbins
Real
Freedom
Handle
Related Quotes:
" 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
Rest
Mind
Living
" 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
People
Grow
" Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. "
Tom Robbins
Contradictory
Paradoxical
Reality
" Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice. "
Tom Robbins
Outlaw
Just
Us
" A writer needs a life of introspection. "
Tom Robbins
Writer
Life
Needs
" I eat so much mayonnaise they were going to send me to the Mayo Clinic. "
Tom Robbins
Going
Eat
Clinic
" I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me. "
Tom Robbins
Morning
Me
Looking
" A child's mind is its living room; it's going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence. "
Tom Robbins
Rest
Mind
Living
" In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable. "
Tom Robbins
Got
Authority
Order
" When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. "
Tom Robbins
Growing
You
Stop
" We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. "
Tom Robbins
Rescue
Own
Our
" I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured. "
Tom Robbins
Science
Think
Aging
" True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed. "
Tom Robbins
True
System
Unexpected
" Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels. "
Tom Robbins
Liberation
Transformation
Celebration
" 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
" I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred. "
Tom Robbins
Believe
Everything
I Believe
" Well, I have never, ever Googled myself. "
Tom Robbins
Myself
Never
Well
" 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
" 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
" Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an unsolvable riddle. But the contemplation of that riddle - even though it cannot be solved - is, in itself, transformative. And if the contemplation is of high enough quality, you can merge with the divine. "
Tom Robbins
Quality
You
Life
" The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas. "
Tom Robbins
Edgar
Pajamas
Poe
" John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?' "
Tom Robbins
Start
God
Last
" 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
Office
School
Newspaper
" The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom. "
Tom Robbins
People
Create
End
" When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle. "
Tom Robbins
Down
Bottle
Just
" A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in contemporary Western literature. I think that's what appeals to the readers who are my fans. "
Tom Robbins
Writing
Fans
Mind
" At the typewriter you find out who you are. "
Tom Robbins
Find
Out
You
" I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore, India. "
Tom Robbins
Will
India
Next
" Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently. "
Tom Robbins
Differently
Equality
Different
" One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything except rotate your tires. "
Tom Robbins
Intellectual
Mood
Trash