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Robert Jenkins

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Robert Jenkins is a writer for the stage and the page. His short plays have been performed in Sydney festivals and by youth theatres. His fiction has so far remained hidden from the world but he is endeavouring to remedy that situation. He is a Speculative Fiction fanatic as his works will show.

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The Truth of Dragons

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Northern Lights (His Dark Materials, #1)

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Judgment Night: A Selection of Science Fiction

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The War in the Air

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Robert’s Quotes

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: writing

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“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

tags: qotd

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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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