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I love teaching creative writing, and I think I'm good at it, but in a different life, I could have been teaching elementary school.

~Alexi Zentner

Topics: Been Could Creative Creative Writing Different Different Life Elementary Elementary School Good Life Love School Teaching Think Writing I Think I Love

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There's very little that's comparable to seeing the spark in a student's face when she gets something that she's been struggling with.

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I started writing 'The Lobster Kings' the day after I sold my first novel, 'Touch.'

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When I'm writing a novel, one of the things I do is get big poster boards. They're actually canvases that artists use. And I keep all the characters' names on them. If you write a big novel, there's a lot of characters.

~Alexi Zentner

Topics: Actually Artists Big Boards Characters Get Keep Lot Names Novel One Of The Things Poster Them Things Use Write Writing You

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For 'The Lobster Kings,' I listened to a lot of Johnny Cash. And it makes its way into the book.

~Alexi Zentner

Topics: Book Cash Johnny Johnny Cash Kings Listened Lobster Lot Makes Way

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If I think of a reader while I am writing, the only reader who really matters for me is my wife. It's most important to me that she likes what I write.

~Alexi Zentner

Topics: Am Important Likes Matters Me Most Only Reader Really She Think While Who Wife Write Writing I Think I Am I Write

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I think so much of young adult literature sort of gets ghettoized - the title 'young adult' makes people immediately discount it. And just like with books that get written for adults, there is plenty of young adult literature that is bad. But there is also plenty of young adult literature that is brilliant.

~Alexi Zentner

Topics: Adult Also Bad Books Brilliant Discount Get Gets Immediately Just Like Literature Makes Much People Plenty Sort Think Title Written Young Young Adult I Think

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I get very tired of books that feel emotionally empty. I would much rather have writers err on the side of being overly sentimental than not. I think that the perfect balance is a story that moves you without being maudlin, but I don't enjoy books that are empty of emotion and there's no connection to the characters.

~Alexi Zentner

Topics: Balance Being Books Characters Connection Emotion Emotionally Empty Enjoy Err Feel Get Moves Much No Connection Overly Perfect Rather Sentimental Side Story Than Think Tired Very Without Would Writers You I Think

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There is no simple answer for what it means to be Canadian. There are a thousand answers that come together. But part of that is that there is a national mythology.

~Alexi Zentner

Topics: Answer Answers Canadian Come Means Mythology National Part Simple Thousand Together

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I believe that art elevates humanity. I feel incredibly privileged to be part of that.

~Alexi Zentner

Topics: Art Believe Feel Humanity Incredibly Part Privileged I Feel I Believe I Believe That

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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