Tom Robbins Quotes


My comic sense, although deliberately Americanized, is, in its intent, much closer related to the crazy wisdom of Zen monks and the goofy genius of Taoist masters than it is to, say, the satirical gibes on Saturday Night Live. It has both a literary and a metaphysical function.


Citations

Robbins, Tom. Conversations with Tom Robbins. Edited by Liam O. Purdon and J. Willis, University Press of Mississippi, 2011.

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Tom Robbins
Tom Robbins
  • Born: July 22, 1932
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Novelist, Short Story Writer, Essayist

Thomas Eugene Robbins is an American novelist. His best-selling novels are "seriocomedies" (also known as "comedy-drama"). 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.