My teaching career started with me teaching comp at a very small school in Buffalo. And I was terrible at that point. They never should have hired me.

- Rob Roberge

I like a text that reminds the reader its a text sometimes.

- 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 protecting yours…

- 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

I think every narrator is an unreliable narrator. In its classic definition - an unreliable narrator is one who reveals something they don't know the…

- 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, or in front of us…

- Rob Roberge

Some of the biggest challenges were, page after page, standing naked in front of the reader.

- 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 people.

- 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 there, whether I …

- Rob Roberge