--- title: "4 Bill Roorbach Quotes - Famous Novelist (Big Bend)" description: "William Roorbach is an American novelist, short story and nature writer, memoirist, journalist, blogger and critic. Browse 4 Bill Roorbach quotes." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bill-roorbach-18026.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Bill Roorbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bill-roorbach-18026.jpg) # Bill Roorbach (1953) Novelist United States **4** quotes in **36** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Bill Roorbach is a novelist from the United States, best known for *Big Bend*. ## Quick Facts About Bill Roorbach Born August 18, 1953 Nationality United States Profession Novelist Notable works Big Bend ## About Bill Roorbach William Roorbach is an American novelist, short story and nature writer, memoirist, journalist, blogger and critic. He has authored fiction and nonfiction works including Big Bend, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and the O. Henry Prize. Roorbach's memoir in nature, Temple Stream, won the Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction, 2005. His novel, Life Among Giants, won the 2013 Maine Literary Award for Fiction.\[18\] And The Remedy for Love, also a novel, was one of six finalists for the 2014 Kirkus Fiction Prize. His book, The Girl of the Lake, is a short story collection published in June 2017. His most recent novel is Lucky Turtle, published in 2022. ## Quotes by Bill Roorbach > [ The successful memoirist \[blogger\] respects facts, uses them accurately, rigorously represses the human impulse to lie or embellish, but knows that truth… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-roorbach/the-successful-memoirist-blogger-respects-facts-uses-them-accurately/) [Bill Roorbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-roorbach/) [Bloggers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bloggers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/217/bill-roorbach-67591_bloggers_the-successful-memoirist-blogger-respect_717497.jpg) > [When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-roorbach/when-a-new-writer-defends-his-style-the-teacher-smiles-or-cringes/) [Bill Roorbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-roorbach/) [Accents](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/accents/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3c/bill-roorbach-67591_accents_when-a-new-writer-defends-his-style-the_1778631.jpg) > [“The authorities aren't always up to the job.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-roorbach/the-authorities-aren-t-always-up-to-the-job/) [Bill Roorbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-roorbach/) [Authorities](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/authorities/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41a/bill-roorbach-67591_authorities_the-authorities-aren-t-always-up-to-the_2353322.jpg) > [It's all written out, you know. Everything is fate. All written out in Heaven, or written out in Hell.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-roorbach/it-s-all-written-out-you-know-everything-is-fate-all-written-out-in/) [Bill Roorbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-roorbach/) [Destiny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/destiny/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c1/bill-roorbach-67591_destiny_it-s-all-written-out-you-know-everything_2767922.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-roorbach/#itemlist", "name": "Bill Roorbach Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The successful memoirist [blogger] respects facts, uses them accurately, rigorously represses the human impulse to lie or embellish, but knows that truth is both different from facts and greater than facts, and not always their sum.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bill Roorbach" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-roorbach/the-successful-memoirist-blogger-respects-facts-uses-them-accurately/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/217/bill-roorbach-67591_bloggers_the-successful-memoirist-blogger-respect_717497.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/217/bill-roorbach-67591_bloggers_the-successful-memoirist-blogger-respect_717497.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/217/bill-roorbach-67591_bloggers_the-successful-memoirist-blogger-respect_717497.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The successful memoirist [blogger] respects facts, uses them accurately, rigorously represses the human…” — Bill Roorbach", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When a new writer defends his \"style,\" the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. 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