- 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
I like characters who are contradictory.
- Mentor
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- Nov 07, 2020
A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I usually submit a novel at a certain number of words, and when I've finished working with my editor, the novel is longer than when I submitted it. I need my editor to help me open up the story.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
An editor is an accomplice, looking in from the outside. That objective view is essential. We don't write in a vacuum, and we don't publish in a vacuum.
- Guidance
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the age of twenty, having published nothing and having had little guidance in my reading, I decided that I wanted to write.
- Essential
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- Nov 07, 2020
Failure is essential. Trial and error is necessary.
- General
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
Invite characters of surprising and moral character, or at least those who grapple with what is right or those who make decisions that shock.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The IMPAC is a terribly important award.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me ten years to write a proper story. I floundered about trying to shape something, counting on the 'feeling' I had as I wrote, only to discover upon rereading my work that the feeling had disappeared, and what remained was an empty shell.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first accepted piece of writing is the most exciting. No other publishing experience matches it. Perhaps jaundice sets in, or expectations are raised, or one starts to think that one is better than is the truth.
- Saying
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- Nov 07, 2020