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What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has the emotional resonance of memoir.

~Chris Bohjalian

Topics: Absolute Believable Clearly Emotional Fiction Important Me Memoir Most Narrator Resonance Though Voice

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When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend.

~Chris Bohjalian

Topics: Before City Day Family Florida Friday Labor Labor Day Miami Moved New New York New York City Suburb Weekend York

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My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the hospital.

~Chris Bohjalian

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If you are stymied as a writer, if it's just not coming together, then take the pressure off and don't feel that you need to write 1,000 words today; just write one really good sentence.

~Chris Bohjalian

Topics: Coming Feel Good Just Need Off Pressure Really Sentence Take Then Today Together Words Write Writer You

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My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every day I do try to write 800-1,200 words. I don't always achieve it, and the reality is that a lot of the words I write will end up on the cutting-room floor.

~Chris Bohjalian

Topics: Achieve Always Day End Every Every Day Floor Lot Opinion Personal Professional Reality Try Up Will Words Write Writer You I Write

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On a regular basis if you're trying to produce something, I think you should work every day and set achievable goals.

~Chris Bohjalian

Topics: Achieve Basis Day Every Every Day Goals Produce Regular Regular Basis Set Should Something Think Trying Work You I Think

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I think the most important lesson isn't necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand yourself and write one specific kind of book, but to write the kind of books you love to read.

~Chris Bohjalian

Topics: Book Books Brand Different Every Every Time Important Kind Lesson Love Most Necessarily Read Specific The Most Important Think Time Try Write You Yourself I Think

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I do have hobbies - I garden and bike, for example - but there's nothing in the world that gives me even a fraction of the pleasure that I derive from hanging around with my wife and daughter.

~Chris Bohjalian

Topics: Around Bike Daughter Derive Even Example For Example Fraction Garden Gives Hanging Hobbies Me Nothing Pleasure Wife World

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I need complete silence when I write.

~Chris Bohjalian

Topics: Complete Need Silence Write I Write

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People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend or family member to a novel I believe they'll cherish but might not otherwise have thought to pick up and read.

~Chris Bohjalian

Topics: Always Believe Cherish Family Family Member Fiction Friend Gives Great Great Pleasure Introduce Me Member Might More Much Nonfiction Novel Otherwise People Pick Pleasure Read Seem Than Thought Up I Believe

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: August 12th, 1962

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