Tom Robbins Quotes

I'm a believer in using whatever works for fiction, but mostly, that's not life.

All that I did was to avail myself of the great privileges of the fiction writer, spring over every scientific difficulty with fancy’s seven-leagued boots, and create on paper what other men were planning out in steel and other metals.

Being a novelist, you can roam around with a story and indulge yourself.

I just loved the idea of writing for different personalities all the time.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

I love telling stories. Creating a character, a world, a whole universe out of nothing. That part I can't get enough of.

Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.

Take it from me: I really love making things up, which is why I write fiction for a living.

As long as you have ideas, you can keep going. That's why writing fiction is so much fun: because you're moving people about, and making settings for them to move in, so there's always something there to keep working on.

The good thing about writing a novel is that you're creating an imaginary world and can take a break when you need to.

I like going back and writing fiction.

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.

I used to write in school a lot; I always liked it and used to write on my own, comic books, come up with alternate story lines to the stuff I watched and read, a lot of books and TV, episodes of 'Twilight Zone.' I didn't think about it.

I think it's fun to play with worlds that you can add a lot of your own imagination to. With 'True Blood,' you're not limited by anything, there are just leaps and bounds of the imagination you can take with these characters.

When you do fiction, it is your imagination you have put out there.

I'm not angry; I write about angry characters. When I'm doing that, I'm happy. Just like when I'm writing about Mickey Sabbath being lustful, I'm not feeling lustful; I'm happy.

I've been writing stories, in one form or another, since I was a kid.

I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.

When you're a writer and you're an adult, that's something you crave - that limitless imagination and love for worlds that don't exist that you can create.

What I like about writing novels is that I'm in my own world for nine months.