Eden Robinson famous quotes

I was born on the same day as Edgar Allan Poe and Dolly Parton: January 19. I am absolutely certain that this affects my writing in some way.
-- Eden Robinson

#Writing #Way #January

I don't really get romance. Bring me fish or moose, not flowers.
-- Eden Robinson

#Flower #Romance #Moose

Once your writing is out there, you can't control how other people perceive it. All you can do is stand in your truth.
-- Eden Robinson

#Writing #People #Perceive

We can be the new brand of self-extincting dinosaurs or we can evolve.
-- Eden Robinson

#Self #Dinosaurs #Evolve

I think the best advice I got was to not worry about what other people would think while you were working on your first draft. Focus on getting it out of your head. You can always edit the manuscript later.
-- Eden Robinson

#Thinking #People #Worry

Our ability to turn off empathy for specific kinds of humans and then use faulty logic to justify our beliefs is messily sociopathic.
-- Eden Robinson

#Empathy #Use #Logic

Autumn. Pretty leaves, pumpkin pie and sweaters. Perfect weather for reading. Winter is great but I hate shoveling.
-- Eden Robinson

#Hate #Reading #Autumn

I've had people who see all my characters as Native, even if they aren't. It's kind of like assuming all a writer's characters are really female because the writer is a woman. I've learned to let that go.
-- Eden Robinson

#Character #People #Female

I don't think anyone's normal.
-- Eden Robinson

#Thinking #Normal

In general, I'm careful when I'm dealing with subjects of deep cultural importance and write with abandon when I'm dealing with issues of personal dysfunction.
-- Eden Robinson

#Writing #Dysfunction #Issues

I think we learn slowly as a group, but we learn. The ozone layer is still there.
-- Eden Robinson

#Thinking #Ozone #Groups

I find myself moved by social justice issues. I'm not sure where that will lead me. I'm willing to nurture it.
-- Eden Robinson

#Issues #Justice #Social

The push and pull of representing your world responsibly and your artistic license is a tricky balance.
-- Eden Robinson

#Balance #World #Artistic

We have good people. We have selfless people. We have great leaders.
-- Eden Robinson

#People #Leader #Selfless

I don't see the point of pretending we're clones.
-- Eden Robinson

#Pretending

If I gave up writing, I'd have to find an equally obsessive way to fill my time. Yarn-bombing skyscrapers or making houses out of empty soda bottles.
-- Eden Robinson

#Writing #Yarn #House

My family is filled with wonderful storytellers. I lack their gift of gab, so it's a relief to be able to write.
-- Eden Robinson

#Writing #Relief #Able

Canadians are fond of darker stories, serious stories, so if you're a Mystery writer or a Romance writer or Fantasy Writer, you will most likely have an American publisher and agent.
-- Eden Robinson

#Romance #Serious #Stories

I miss smoking (two to four packs a day) but I don't miss the crackle in my lungs when I breathed.
-- Eden Robinson

#Two #Smoking #Missing

The States has more publishers and a wider range of aesthetics but so much more competition - the amount of writers vying for the same spot as you is staggering. I think they're different challenges, but equally frustrating when you're trying to get your foot in the door.
-- Eden Robinson

#Thinking #Feet #Doors

Fewer publishers mean you have a limited set of aesthetics, so you know who can and can't send your work to. You have more situations where you take the offer or don't get published or you learn to self-publish.
-- Eden Robinson

#Mean #Self #Situation

Our ability to factory farm animals is coldly psychopathic.
-- Eden Robinson

#Animal #Factories #Ability

The critiques I received from my father's community didn't actually have to do with any of the things I'd been afraid of - spiritual or cultural aspects - they were more annoyed that I'd killed off this character or those characters hadn't hooked up or I'd done an open ending and it didn't give them a sense of closure that they were expecting.
-- Eden Robinson

#Spiritual #Father #Character

I do get flak for the lack of romance in my stories.
-- Eden Robinson

#Romance #Stories

If I have a clear spot in my schedule, I like to tackle the heavy scenes that require the heightened emotion and focus of a long writing session. Otherwise, I have daily obligations that can't be ignored.
-- Eden Robinson

#Writing #Long #Focus