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
I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life.
There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act.
Most novelists write about twisted lives.
There's probably no subject with quite so many conflictin' opinions about it as there are about food, and 'tis better to swap bubble gum with a rabid bulldog than challenge a single one o' the varyin' beliefs your average human holds about nutrition.
Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be.
Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.
Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.
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?'
If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.
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.'
I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.
Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the nature of the universe -- I think that word would be paradox. That's true at the subatomic level, right through sociological, psychological, philosophical levels on up to cosmic levels.
My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well.
My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.