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> [I wasn't doing much work when I was using and drinking. I have friends who did it (work), but I wasn't one of those people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-roberge/i-wasn-t-doing-much-work-when-i-was-using-and-drinking-i-have-friends/)

[Rob Roberge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-roberge/)

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## More by Rob Roberge

> [I think the act of lying can be separated from the genre of memoir. Though often times, people are unaware of their own subjectivity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-roberge/i-think-the-act-of-lying-can-be-separated-from-the-genre-of-memoir/)

[Rob Roberge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-roberge/)

> [The least trusted testimony in a court of law is eyewitness testimony. We are simply not good reporters of facts that happen to us,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-roberge/the-least-trusted-testimony-in-a-court-of-law-is-eyewitness-testimony/)

[Rob Roberge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-roberge/)

> [I have an MFA in writing. It is debatable if they are right for everyone, but I had a mentor who really changed my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-roberge/i-have-an-mfa-in-writing-it-is-debatable-if-they-are-right-for/)

[Rob Roberge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-roberge/)

> [You can't hide behind the guise of fiction. No matter how autobiographical a fictional scene is, you can always tell the reader - in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-roberge/you-can-t-hide-behind-the-guise-of-fiction-no-matter-how/)

[Rob Roberge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-roberge/)

> [A lot of my students have been quite notable. Notable in both the personal sense - people who have changed my life - and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-roberge/a-lot-of-my-students-have-been-quite-notable-notable-in-both-the/)

[Rob Roberge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-roberge/)

> [The biggest thing was that second person allowed me to trick myself into revealing more about myself. It gave me an authorial distance to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-roberge/the-biggest-thing-was-that-second-person-allowed-me-to-trick-myself/)

[Rob Roberge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-roberge/)

> [“Stay away from the Zombies.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-roberge/stay-away-from-the-zombies/)

[Rob Roberge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-roberge/)

> [Some of the biggest challenges were, page after page, standing naked in front of the reader.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-roberge/some-of-the-biggest-challenges-were-page-after-page-standing-naked-in/)

[Rob Roberge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-roberge/)

> [I wasn't doing much work when I was using and drinking. I have friends who did it (work), but I wasn't one of those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-roberge/i-wasn-t-doing-much-work-when-i-was-using-and-drinking-i-have-friends/)

[Rob Roberge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-roberge/)

> [For me, addiction never really included telling myself that everything was okay. By the time I was deep in my addictions, I knew things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-roberge/for-me-addiction-never-really-included-telling-myself-that-everything/)

[Rob Roberge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-roberge/)

> [I'd say the music influences the writing - the music and rhythm of the prose - much more than the writing influences the music.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-roberge/i-d-say-the-music-influences-the-writing-the-music-and-rhythm-of-the/)

[Rob Roberge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-roberge/)

> [I don't teach narrative theory by itself anymore, but I kind of use it when critiquing student manuscripts. So, it works its way in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-roberge/i-don-t-teach-narrative-theory-by-itself-anymore-but-i-kind-of-use-it/)

[Rob Roberge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-roberge/)

> [It took me seven years of writing before I published my first story. And then, the publications trickled in over the next five years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-roberge/it-took-me-seven-years-of-writing-before-i-published-my-first-story/)

[Rob Roberge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-roberge/)

> [One of the things I love most about second person is that it reminds the reader that they are reading a text. It doesn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-roberge/one-of-the-things-i-love-most-about-second-person-is-that-it-reminds/)

[Rob Roberge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-roberge/)

> [I think every narrator is an unreliable narrator. In its classic definition - an unreliable narrator is one who reveals something they don't know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-roberge/i-think-every-narrator-is-an-unreliable-narrator-in-its-classic/)

[Rob Roberge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-roberge/)

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