Books Quote 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.

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— Rob Roberge

A lot of my students have been quite notable. Notable in both the personal sense - people who have changed my life - and…

— 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…

— Rob Roberge

“Stay away from the Zombies.”

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.

— 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…

— 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.

— Rob Roberge