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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
A depressed person is often a person who will push others away. If you are pushed away and pushed away and pushed away, you have to have an enormous amount of inner resources to keep going back.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
When everything does seem out of control, writing fiction is a way I can order that chaos and restore some sort of meaning. I like the playful aspect of writing fiction. You know how it is when we are kids and we make up our worlds: You be this guy, and I am going to be this guy, and we are going to go slay dragons.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Irma Voth' is my sixth book, but it's only the third time I've featured Mennonite settings and characters.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would never want to deny my Mennonite background and culture; I'll always feel like and be identified as a Mennonite and therefore possess that little extra authority on our beliefs. I also see myself as a Canadian writer.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like every Canadian, I have been taught that one of the most important functions of art is to supply and elaborate the myths and narratives of nationhood.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Canada has, at times, represented itself as a country in a valiant struggle against powerful and menacing agents that are indifferent to its special practices and sensibilities - most especially American culture. It's the old, outdated garrison mentality.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole notion of pain, and how every individual experiences pain, is up for debate. We don't know how another person experiences pain - physical pain or psychic pain. Some of these clinics where assisted suicide or euthanasia is practiced, they call it 'weariness of life.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't even know what 'successful' means. We're all failures. Look at the world. We're all complicit.
- Legend
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a person becomes a legend, the very thing that makes them human and knowable is killed off, so it's like being killed over and over and over again, for all eternity.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A person might see that I've blurbed a certain book and decide they want nothing to do with it! Like, 'If that reprobate Toews likes it, forget it!' So, it's a crapshoot. But it feels good to be able to praise a book that I love or that has been written by a new writer.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The requests for blurbs seem to come in waves. I'm not sure what precipitates them. I think it must be excruciating for editors to draft those elaborate letters asking for a blurb, and I know it's torturous for us writers to ask directly. But publishers encourage us to. Rock and a hard place.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
At one point in my life, I wanted to do a master's degree in Irish literature, but I ended up getting pregnant instead.
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- Nov 07, 2020