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I don't think anyone's normal.
Eden Robinson / Novelist
Normal
Thinking
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I don't see the point of pretending we're clones.
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The world is fine. Our place on it is precarious.
Eden Robinson / Novelist
Fine
Precarious
World
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I do get flak for the lack of romance in my stories.
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Romance
Stories
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I usually tame my off-kilter sense of humor for novels.
Eden Robinson / Novelist
Novel
Sense Of Humor
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Writing about your community is difficult for any writer.
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Community
Difficult
Writing
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Our ability to factory farm animals is coldly psychopathic.
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Ability
Animal
Factories
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I don't really get romance. Bring me fish or moose, not flowers.
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Flower
Moose
Romance
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We have good people. We have selfless people. We have great leaders.
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Leader
People
Selfless
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I don't know if I have a book in me, but I'm sure I have more essays.
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Book
Essays
Knows
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We can be the new brand of self-extincting dinosaurs or we can evolve.
Eden Robinson / Novelist
Dinosaurs
Evolve
Self
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Where I come from, people will spit at you if they think you support Enbridge.
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Spit
Support People Will
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I think we learn slowly as a group, but we learn. The ozone layer is still there.
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Groups
Ozone
Thinking
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In general, Americans like to be entertained. Canadians seem more suspicious of it.
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Seems
Suspicious
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I miss smoking (two to four packs a day) but I don't miss the crackle in my lungs when I breathed.
Eden Robinson / Novelist
Missing
Smoking
Two
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The push and pull of representing your world responsibly and your artistic license is a tricky balance.
Eden Robinson / Novelist
Artistic
Balance
World
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I find myself moved by social justice issues. I'm not sure where that will lead me. I'm willing to nurture it.
Eden Robinson / Novelist
Issues
Justice
Social
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My family is filled with wonderful storytellers. I lack their gift of gab, so it's a relief to be able to write.
Eden Robinson / Novelist
Able
Relief
Writing
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Autumn. Pretty leaves, pumpkin pie and sweaters. Perfect weather for reading. Winter is great but I hate shoveling.
Eden Robinson / Novelist
Autumn
Hate
Reading
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Once your writing is out there, you can't control how other people perceive it. All you can do is stand in your truth.
Eden Robinson / Novelist
People
Perceive
Writing
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I have carpal tunnel so I can't write more than four hours total without tingling numbness. I take a lot of breaks and do stretches.
Eden Robinson / Novelist
Numbness
Tunnels
Writing
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Our ability to turn off empathy for specific kinds of humans and then use faulty logic to justify our beliefs is messily sociopathic.
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Empathy
Logic
Use
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The land and the ocean are living, breathing entities that supported us, clothed us, fed us, and nurtured our culture from time immemorial.
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Ocean
Clothed
Entities
Fed
Immemorial
Nurtured
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I was born on the same day as Edgar Allan Poe and Dolly Parton: January 19. I am absolutely certain that this affects my writing in some way.
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January
Way
Writing
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If I gave up writing, I'd have to find an equally obsessive way to fill my time. Yarn-bombing skyscrapers or making houses out of empty soda bottles.
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House
Writing
Yarn
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I'm a novelist from the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations of British Columbia, both small coastal reserves hugging the rugged shores of the west coast.
Eden Robinson / Novelist
British Columbia
Coast
Columbia
Reserves
Rugged
West Coast
Hugging
Shores
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In general, I'm careful when I'm dealing with subjects of deep cultural importance and write with abandon when I'm dealing with issues of personal dysfunction.
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Dysfunction
Issues
Writing
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Canadians are fond of darker stories, serious stories, so if you're a Mystery writer or a Romance writer or Fantasy Writer, you will most likely have an American publisher and agent.
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Romance
Serious
Stories
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The First Nations Financial Transparency Act insulted the integrity of the very people in our communities who guide our economic policy and act as our mediators with provincial and federal governments.
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Economic Policy
Insulted
Transparency
Communities
Governments
Guide
Provincial
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I've had people who see all my characters as Native, even if they aren't. It's kind of like assuming all a writer's characters are really female because the writer is a woman. I've learned to let that go.
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Character
Female
People
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If I have a clear spot in my schedule, I like to tackle the heavy scenes that require the heightened emotion and focus of a long writing session. Otherwise, I have daily obligations that can't be ignored.
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Focus
Long
Writing
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I think the best advice I got was to not worry about what other people would think while you were working on your first draft. Focus on getting it out of your head. You can always edit the manuscript later.
Eden Robinson / Novelist
People
Thinking
Worry
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Fewer publishers mean you have a limited set of aesthetics, so you know who can and can't send your work to. You have more situations where you take the offer or don't get published or you learn to self-publish.
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Mean
Self
Situation
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I think we're in a 1970s-level moment of social transition and they're always full of upheaval. As violent and deranged as we can be to each other and to other species, we've got nothing on tsunamis, hurricanes or tornadoes.
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Thinking
Transition
Upheaval
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Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened considerably when people discovered that the number of permanent jobs for locals, in the end, would amount to some dock workers.
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Excitement
Permanent
Pipeline
Workers
Announcement
Considerably
Dock
In The End
Initial
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In a pine tree behind me, an eagle waits out the rain, hunched into himself, brooding. Crows squabble, a murder chasing a raven. Seals cruise the lines of fishing nets bobbing in the water, hoping for an easy meal, the tender bellies of salmon.
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Brooding
Chasing
Easy
Fishing
Lines
Rain
Salmon
Seals
Tree
Water
Behind
Bellies
Crows
Eagle
Himself
Hoping
Meal
Nets
Pine
Raven
Tender
Waits
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The States has more publishers and a wider range of aesthetics but so much more competition - the amount of writers vying for the same spot as you is staggering. I think they're different challenges, but equally frustrating when you're trying to get your foot in the door.
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Doors
Feet
Thinking
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A potlatch is similar to a court case in that both are prohibitively expensive; both involve lengthy speeches and the vigorous examination and debate of the actions, rights and legal responsibilities of the participants. One has food, singing and spiritual rites; the other, not so much.
Eden Robinson / Novelist
Legal
Court
Debate
Examination
Expensive
Lengthy
Participants
Rights
Singing
Spiritual
Vigorous
Actions
Case
Involve
Responsibilities
Similar
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On June 22, 1793, Vancouver's Discovery and Chatham anchored in Klekane Inlet. Archibald Menzies, the ship's botanist, wrote that on the evening of June 28, they were visited by eight natives in two canoes who brought them two large salmon. This is the first known published encounter with the Haisla people.
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Discovery
Evening
June
Salmon
Vancouver
Anchored
Encounter
Natives
Published
Visited
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The Haisla named this point Obela. Not so long ago, the bay was lined with longhouses and canoes, totem poles and fishing gear. The reserve was once a winter village, a place to celebrate the sacred season, when memories passed in dance and song and stories from one generation to the next with great feasts called potlatches.
Eden Robinson / Novelist
Celebrate
Fishing
Memories
Sacred
Village
Winter
Bay
Named
Feast
Gear
Lined
Passed
Poles
Reserve
Totem
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While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.
Eden Robinson / Novelist
Apex
Careful
Chiefs
Deliberate
Hereditary
Lengthy
Negotiation
Affect
Answerable
Communities
Dictators
Discussions
Inhabit
Require
Systems
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The critiques I received from my father's community didn't actually have to do with any of the things I'd been afraid of - spiritual or cultural aspects - they were more annoyed that I'd killed off this character or those characters hadn't hooked up or I'd done an open ending and it didn't give them a sense of closure that they were expecting.
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Character
Father
Spiritual
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The main reserve of the Haisla Nation hugs the northwest coast of British Columbia, about 500 miles north of Vancouver. The government docks sprawl on the south end of the reserve, nestled in a bay. As children, we swam at the docks and ran to the nearby point to pick blueberries and huckleberries when we were hungry so we wouldn't have to go home.
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British Columbia
Coast
Columbia
Hungry
Miles
Ran
Vancouver
Bay
Go Home
Hugs
Nearby
Northwest
Reserve
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Dad and Mom were frustrated artists - Dad wanted to study engineering or architecture and Mom wanted to be an actress - but the world was a different place when they were young so Dad became a public works foreman and Mom became a stay-at-home mom. When I said I wanted to be a writer, they were thrilled. They did everything in their power to support me.
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Dad
Home
Mom
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People with antisocial personality disorders aren't automatically bad - they simply approach the world with a more ruthless set of lenses. The lack of empathy or very weak empathy and the ability to read other people's weak spots can be a flammable combination when you get in the way of something they want. But they aren't a different species. They're a part of our spectrum.
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Empathy
People
Personality
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