---
title: "1 Creation Destruction Quotes By Robert Kroetsch"
description: "1 Creation Destruction quotes by Robert Kroetsch. Plus more from Robert Kroetsch and more Creation Destruction sayings from other authors."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d99/robert-kroetsch-48194_creation-and-destruc_a-loose-generalization-would-have-it-tha_800582.jpg"
---

> [“A loose generalization would have it that creation and destruction go hand in hand. But my destruction takes the form of trying to make an old story work, for instance having almost to destroy the old story to tell it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kroetsch/a-loose-generalization-would-have-it-that-creation-and-destruction-go/)

[Robert Kroetsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kroetsch/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d99/robert-kroetsch-48194_creation-and-destruc_a-loose-generalization-would-have-it-tha_800582.jpg)

## More by Robert Kroetsch

> [I'm no longer interested in the possible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kroetsch/i-m-no-longer-interested-in-the-possible/)

[Robert Kroetsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kroetsch/)

> [Ariel Gordon is superbly, supremely, a poet of the body. She finds words for the physicality of the forest, of the garden, of pregnancy.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kroetsch/ariel-gordon-is-superbly-supremely-a-poet-of-the-body-she-finds-words/)

[Robert Kroetsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kroetsch/)

> [“A loose generalization would have it that creation and destruction go hand in hand. But my destruction takes the form of trying to make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kroetsch/a-loose-generalization-would-have-it-that-creation-and-destruction-go/)

[Robert Kroetsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kroetsch/)

> [“Without writing, I sometimes suspect there would be no such thing as love.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kroetsch/without-writing-i-sometimes-suspect-there-would-be-no-such-thing-as/)

[Robert Kroetsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kroetsch/)

> [George Bowering doesn’t play fair. Baseball Love is so good there is no memoir in the league that can go up against it. Bowering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kroetsch/george-bowering-doesn-t-play-fair-baseball-love-is-so-good-there-is/)

[Robert Kroetsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kroetsch/)

> [“If we have nothing to write about but nothing to write about, then that is what we have to write about.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kroetsch/if-we-have-nothing-to-write-about-but-nothing-to-write-about-then/)

[Robert Kroetsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kroetsch/)

> [To approach the badlands is to find a gap in the known and expected world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kroetsch/to-approach-the-badlands-is-to-find-a-gap-in-the-known-and-expected/)

[Robert Kroetsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kroetsch/)

> [“We can only re-tell stories; we attempt, in doing so, to tell new stories. Is there a way out of this bind? I think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kroetsch/we-can-only-re-tell-stories-we-attempt-in-doing-so-to-tell-new/)

[Robert Kroetsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kroetsch/)

```json
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@graph": [
        {
            "@type": "ItemList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creation-destruction/robert-kroetsch/#itemlist",
            "name": "1 Creation Destruction Quotes By Robert Kroetsch",
            "numberOfItems": 1,
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“A loose generalization would have it that creation and destruction go hand in hand. But my destruction takes the form of trying to make an old story work, for instance having almost to destroy the old story to tell it anew. The Odyssey is an oldie. Which I try to tell on dry land, so to speak, in The Studhorse Man. You see, the old stories, instead of illuminating the world, sometimes stop us from seeing it. It's like a pair of glasses that don't quite fit any longer.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Robert Kroetsch"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kroetsch/a-loose-generalization-would-have-it-that-creation-and-destruction-go/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d99/robert-kroetsch-48194_creation-and-destruc_a-loose-generalization-would-have-it-tha_800582.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d99/robert-kroetsch-48194_creation-and-destruc_a-loose-generalization-would-have-it-tha_800582.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d99/robert-kroetsch-48194_creation-and-destruc_a-loose-generalization-would-have-it-tha_800582.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“A loose generalization would have it that creation and destruction go hand in hand. But my destruction takes…” — Robert Kroetsch",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "CollectionPage",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creation-destruction/robert-kroetsch/#webpage",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creation-destruction/robert-kroetsch/",
            "name": "Creation Destruction Quotes by Robert Kroetsch",
            "isPartOf": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website"
            },
            "mainEntity": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creation-destruction/robert-kroetsch/#itemlist"
            },
            "primaryImageOfPage": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d99/robert-kroetsch-48194_creation-and-destruc_a-loose-generalization-would-have-it-tha_800582.jpg"
            },
            "description": "1 Creation Destruction quotes by Robert Kroetsch. Plus more from Robert Kroetsch and more Creation Destruction sayings from other authors.",
            "breadcrumb": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creation-destruction/robert-kroetsch/#breadcrumb"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creation-destruction/robert-kroetsch/#breadcrumb",
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "name": "Home",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "name": "Quotes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "name": "Topics",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "name": "Creation Destruction",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creation-destruction/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 5,
                    "name": "Robert Kroetsch",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creation-destruction/robert-kroetsch/"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "WebSite",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "publisher": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "Organization",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "logo": {
                "@type": "ImageObject",
                "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png",
                "width": 512,
                "height": 512
            }
        }
    ]
}
```