- Chattering
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
What fascinates me as a writer is the stuff underneath, To me, what drives a novel is the curiosity behind the character and the depths that you want to find in that character.
- Distance
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, when I 'discover' a story, there is a feeling of buoyancy and clarity, perhaps similar to early morning out on a prairie highway, when darkness lifts and reveals the outline of farmhouses and copses of trees in the distance.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my brief writing life, it means I am still lucky that I have at least one more novel to complete. I do not expect that a story will arrive just because it is time to write another novel. It doesn't happen that way.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day, at my office, I wrote down some names and dates and notes, and I wrote a title, 'The Age of Despair,' and then some other 'Ages' - Innocence, God, Reason, Hope - and I wrote this as well: 'Woman, born in 1930, lives till the age of 80 or so, suffers depression, marries a car dealer, has children who grow up to confuse her.'
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to push whatever is looking over my shoulder away when I am writing. It's once the box of books arrive that I say I'm going to be pilloried for this or that. But then you realize it's done, and there is nothing I can do. I'm proud of the book.
- Books
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a writer, I'm always aware of the fact that there are so many books out there.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I may not have written the stories that I've written if I hadn't ended up in Niverville. I don't know; I don't know. How can you know?
- End Result
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a construction project for me is like writing a novel. I can't do the project unless I can envision sort of the whole structure and see what the end result might be.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every year, the Giller jury is different. You write the best book you can and throw it out there.
- Copy
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a writer, you write the book, you give it to your editor, it's copy edited, it's published, it's thrown out there, and then there's a response.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though I loved books as a young boy, I loved sports even more. I wanted to be a quarterback in the CFL.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a big reader of Zane Grey as a young boy, and so horses and the West figured large in my imagination.
- Contradictory
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- Nov 07, 2020