"It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done."

-- Robert Harris

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“I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. If the patient doesn't want all the pills I've recommended, that's up to him. But I must warn that next time I will have to come as a surgeon with a knife.”
“When I announced on my Facebook page that I'm coming to Israel, people started telling me that I shouldn't go there, but I figured that if I'm not going to come here, then I guess I can't go back to the United States anymore and I can never go to Russia again and I should probably never go back to Germany and I should probably never go back to France and I should probably never go back to England....All I see here is a really beautiful city.”
“Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.”
“The Spartans do not enquire how many the enemy are, but where they are.”
“I always wanted to be an actor, but my top three favorite actors of all time are Al Pacino, James Dean and Philip Seymour Hoffman.”
“We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.”
“To me, love is the strongest and most amazing force in the world. It can bring people together, tear them apart, lift people up, or bring them down. But if it is true and pure, love can create a beautiful and peaceful world.”
“I miss smoking (two to four packs a day) but I don't miss the crackle in my lungs when I breathed.”

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

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