Tom Robbins Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)
Tom Robbins quotes and sayings page 6 (88 year old author). Here's quote # 51 through 60 out of the 67 we have for him.
“Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.”
“If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.”
“Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.”
“My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.”
“Writing is the hardest physical work there is.”
“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.”
“A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.”
“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?'”
“Most novelists write about twisted lives.”
“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.”
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