Tom Robbins
Tom Robbins
Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins is an American novelist. His best-selling novels are "seriocomedies", often wildly poetic stories with a strong social and philosophical undercurrent, an irreverent bent, and scenes extrapolated from carefully researched bizarre facts. His novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues was made into a movie in 1993 by Gus Van Sant and stars Uma Thurman, Lorraine Bracco, and Keanu Reeves...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 July 1932
CityBlowing Rock, NC
CountryUnited States of America
If you lack the iron and the fizz to take control of your own life, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense. Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.
A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.
Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened!
If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.
When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.
People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
Approfondement is a French word that means 'playing easily in the deep.'
When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.
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.
Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.
A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.
Success can eliminate as many options as failure.
Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.
Don't talk about it - you'll talk it away. Let the ideas flow from your mind to the page without exposing them to air. Especially hot air.