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It wasn't until I started to read short stories - by people like Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, John Updike... Eudora Welty - that I became excited about the possibilities of writing.

~Carol Windley

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I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.

~Carol Windley

Topics: Age Any Books Early Early Age Fiction First Had Just Life Long Long Time More Most Offer Piece Quite Quite A Long Time Read Reading Really Started Then Thing Think Thought Time Very Very Early Age Were Wonderful Wonderful Thing Write Wrote I Think

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Language and written language are the only real way we have to see inside another person's thoughts and to know what makes another person human. Without writing, we just wouldn't have that kind of access.

~Carol Windley

Topics: Access Another Human Inside Just Kind Know Language Makes Only Person Real See Thoughts Way Without Writing Written

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I have a preference for writing that deals with domestic issues; even in visual art, I like work that focuses on very small aspects of human life. I like movies that have a very narrow focus. I can see how it might be viewed as limiting, but I don't experience it that way.

~Carol Windley

Topics: Art Aspects Deals Domestic Even Experience Focus How Human Human Life Issues Life Like Limiting Might Movies Narrow Preference See Small Very Viewed Visual Way Work Writing I Can

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I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when you're working on a novel. But I do like to take a story and reorder it, put things in different places. This allows me to see things in a new and sometimes surprising way.

~Carol Windley

Topics: Because Different Different Places Drafts Get Like Many Me New Novel Obsessive Places Put Really See Sometimes Story Surprising Take Things Time-Consuming Try Very Way Working Writing You I Can

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Each story presents a mystery that has to be solved in the process of writing. When I'm at work on a story, I'm completely immersed in that world and in the lives of those characters; they're utterly real to me. Then, when I've completed the story, it all just falls away. The whole compulsion to understand is over.

~Carol Windley

Topics: Away Characters Completed Compulsion Each Falls Immersed Just Lives Me Mystery Over Presents Process Real Solved Story Then Those Understand Utterly Whole Work World Writing

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Writer

Born: June 18th, 1947

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