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

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Source : "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

Eden Robinson

#Balance Quotes #World Quotes #Artistic Quotes

“Ive never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.”
“At home we have lost the capacity to see what is before us. Travel shakes us out of our apathy, and we regain an attentiveness that heightens every experience. The exhilaration of travel has many sources, but surely one of them is that we recapture in some measure the unspoiled awareness of children.”
“I'm always a sucker for a love story.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Some day, my son, you are going to learn that the two greatest joys of being a man are beating the hell out of someone and getting the hell beaten out of you, good night.”

Source : Richard Price (1999). “The Wanderers”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“No matter how you feel, you made progress today.”
“Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.”
“Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don't be afraid to make your characters suffer. Read what you love. Write what you love. Love.”
“Most people are far more concerned that they can control their own bodies than they are about petitioning Congress.”

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