Tom Robbins Quotes

If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.

Tom Robbins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 22, 1936

Topics

BookWorthSheRememberingAnything

Part of what I do, after feeling invisible for a long time, is make an effort not to be invisible any more.

John Grant

TimeEffortLongFeelingLong Time

Your sympathy is worthless to people in need without action.

Andy Dunn

PeopleSympathyActionNeedWithout

When you get to that point where you don't want to live, and you don't want to die, it's a desperate, horrible place to be. And I just hit my knees. And I had to use 'The Passion of the Christ' to heal my wounds.

Mel Gibson

LivePassionDieYouPlaceWant

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

Robert Louis Stevenson

ManProudFriendsHeShallHis

All countries have poor people. Yet it's a very rare country which understands the indignities of poverty, while education systems maintain the status quo. The children of the elite go to the best schools and get the best jobs, not because they are the best. We're not taking advantage of the intellectual power on this planet.

Ann Cotton

EducationPowerChildrenBestPeople

The experience of writing under a pseudonym was tremendously liberating; I could write what I wanted.

Stephen McCauley

ExperienceWritingWriteWanted

It is something actresses need to go through and I think they look forward to being naked in a movie. I don't know why, but it is something you need to exhaust from yourself.

Sophie Marceau

YourselfForwardThinkYouLookGo

Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.

Trent Reznor

BetterDesignYouLookWantMovies

I think if you're going to be committed to doing anything, you really have to care about it, and I suppose that is a romantic idea.

Tony Benn

RomanticThinkCareDoingYouGoing

When golf used to be a rich man's sport, if you were poor you could not step foot on a course.

Shia LaBeouf

ManStepRichGolfYouPoor

I think writers have become hypnotised by the number of jokes on the page at the expense of character.

Sherwood Schwartz

CharacterThinkPageBecomeJokes

Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population.

Moshe Sharett

WorldSecurityAggressionIsrael

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