Tom Robbins Quotes

I'd been writing stories since I was a child. I wrote little books for my mom and bound them myself with needle and thread. Mostly, they were about my pets.

I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.

I've been a writer since I was a kid. I've been a writer since I was, you know, dictating stories into a tape deck and trying to get my mom to type them up - when I was really, really little.

The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.

To me, writing is fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.

I love acting, but directing and writing have always been just as important. I started to write so many things when I was even a child. I wrote my first play when I was, like, seven years old. That was me - a writer - for years.

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

Ever since I was 7 years old, I was writing. I remember being in the basement of my house, this dank, horrible basement, putting on plays with not-very-willing participants, and I would promise kids in the neighborhood that I'd play Nintendo 64 with them after we'd rehearse this stupid play that I wrote.

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

I started writing stories as a child.

I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five or six, handsomely accompanied by crayon illustrations.

When I play games, I'll make up little stories for just anything. It's almost the game of making up background stories for people you see on the street. You know what I mean? I wasn't exactly the popular kid in school growing up, so I found myself really observing people, and watching how they interact, and how they react to things.

I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.

I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career.

I have always written. I was one of those kids who would always fill exercise books with girls and telepathic ponies.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of being able to turn words into stories. It was a miracle.

The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old.

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.

I love reading almost as much as I love writing.

When I was little, I had this old video camera, and I set it up, and I would pretend that I was on comedy shows and soap operas and things like that.