Tom Robbins Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• On the mainland, a rain was falling. The famous Seattle rain. The thin, gray rain that toadstools love. The persistent rain that knows every hidden entrance into collar and shopping bag. The quiet rain that can rust a tin roof without the tin roof making a sound in protest. The shamanic rain that feeds the imagination. The rain that seems actually a secret language, whispering, like the ecstasy of primitives, of the essence of things.

  Tom Robbins

  Rain, Fall, Essence

• ...language is not the frosting, it's the cake.

  Tom Robbins

  Cake, Language

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.207, Bantam

• Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.

  Tom Robbins

  Our World, Air, Water

• We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.

  Tom Robbins

  Use, Language, Form

• First I think I was interested in the stories, and later on, I became more interested in the language itself, so the stories became almost secondary, but it was kind of a background music for my life.

  Tom Robbins

  Thinking, Stories, Firsts

• The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic discord - is an obvious example of how language in exploitative, cynical or simply neurotic hands can add to the weariness, the darkness in the world.

  Tom Robbins

  Drama, Hands, Dysfunction

  "The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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