David Alexander Robertson > Quotes

“Stories always lead people somewhere, To a place, to a memory.”
― David Alexander Robertson, The Barren Grounds

“Humans...The land provides everything that anybody would need. If you take only what you need, the land renews itself so that it can provide more. Medicines, water, plants, meat. In exchange, because we don’t really have anything the land wants, we honor it for what it gives us...When you take more than the land can provide, it stops giving. It can’t give. That’s what’s happened here. That’s what happens with humans.”
― David Alexander Robertson, The Barren Grounds

“We are time travellers. We visit the past - the events and decisions in our lives - sometimes repeatedly. Typically, these trips to another time are powered by regret, things we wish we would have done differently.”
― David Alexander Robertson, All the Little Monsters: How I Learned to Live with Anxiety

“People always say, “Write what you know,” but writing is an act of exploration, self-reflection, and personal growth. I can say that now more than ever, in writing this story. If you only write what you know, how are you growing? Instead, write to your passion, write what you know, write to understand, write to connect, but don’t stay hidden in your comfort zone (an ironic thing for something with anxiety to say, I know.) When you write about something you’re passionate for, you connect with people who feel that passion, or share it.”
― David Alexander Robertson, All the Little Monsters: How I Learned to Live with Anxiety