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Tom Robbins on Jitterbugs
Season 1
Episode 25
Tom Robbins, author of classics like Still Life of Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, takes us inside the mind of a writer who'd prefer writing with a raven quill dipped in lizard blood.
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"The key was somehow to know what was important and what was not important."
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Dame Stephanie Shirley in 2010 from an oral history at the British Library.
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"Everything in my mind works like a search engine set for the image function."
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“Any man who really has faith in himself will be dubbed arrogant by his fellows”
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"There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction.” - Garrison Keillor, 1994
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"I‘m just an obnoxious guy who can make it appear charming." - Bill Murray