Quotes by Robin Black

“There are often two conversations going on in a marriage. The one that youre having and the one youre not.”

“It was 911 calling me. If you can believe it. Them calling me.”

“It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun.”

“I spent so much time thinking about regret. Regret and its accompanying conviction that there is a perfect, placid life, one's own alternate existence, pristine and simple, existing in a neighborin...”

“Rejection is part of the game. Or rather, rejection is part of the profession. A profession which at times can feel like a game.”

“Make your skin as thick as you are able to, for your career. Keep it as thin as you can tolerate, for your art.”

“Do whatever you have to do, avoid whatever you need to avoid, protect yourself however you need to protect yourself in order to stay on course, write, send the work out, write more, send out more w...”

“You cannot write the pages you love without writing the pages you hate. Nothing that you write is pointless, useless, or unnecessary. The product requires the process. The good days may be more enj...”

“Diversity matters. Not only in what we look like, or what religion we practice, or in whom we love, but also in how we live our lives, including the order in which we go about things, the seasons i...”

“Life. It begins and begins and begins. An infinite number of times. It is all beginnings until the end comes. Sometimes we know it and sometimes we do not, but, at every moment, life begins again.”