Tom Robbins Quotes

It is important for the creative juices to find an outlet, otherwise they stagnate.

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

All I can do is write about whatever grabs me.

I think writing gives me creative freedom.

As authors, we know that it is very difficult to unleash one's creativity.

You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you to write it.

When the initial little impulse comes it just tends to come. I wake up in the middle of the night, or I'll be swimming in the pool with my kids and just think, "Can't forget that one." Then there's the more organized side of the brain, which is when I choose to work on them. I've learned through a bunch of mentors how to demarcate the different times for your writing process. I keep multiple projects going at once and there's a time when no matter what you're doing, you have to stop and write it because it's coming.

I prefer writing originals.

I write just knowing that I enjoy writing. But if I have to write, it seems like nothing comes. But when I go there for my own pleasure, the Lord might just give me loads of stuff all at once.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don't understand people who get up at 9 o'clock in the morning, put on the coffee and sit down to write.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

I'm addicted to creating and writing.

I get suggestions all the time. People feel quite free at events or even on the street to tell me what they think I should be writing. What I've learned, though, is that this thing, this connection, has to be in place for me to be able to kind of launch into a world imaginatively.

Writing, for me, is a very fluid process. I sit down and wait for the words to come. They usually do - in buckets and waves. I look upon it as a blessing because the words come so easily.

I don't believe in writer's block.

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat.

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.

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.

I don't really like to just sit down at a computer and write, because that tends to be a little forced.

You can't slot a time and a space and think 'ok now it's time to sit and compose.' It just doesn't work like that for me.

For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a movie, as long as the end part of it is interesting - that's what it's about for me.

Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.

If I find out I have to write today and nothing else, that’s a perfect day. I know a lot of people who are great at it and make it look easy who are tortured and miserable people. Writing for me is perfect peace.