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A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.

~David Bergen

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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.

~David Bergen

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You are only as good as your last book, and so there has to be a book.

~David Bergen

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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.

~David Bergen

Topics: Construction End End Result Envision Like Me Might Novel Project Result See Sort Structure Think Unless Whole Writing I Think I Can

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When I get moved to write a story, I don't question the story. I dive right in, and I try to ignore the voices that are chattering away at me: 'You can't do that', 'You shouldn't do that'. I just sort of leap and take a chance and go for it.

~David Bergen

Topics: Away Chance Dive Get Go Go For It Ignore Just Leap Me Moved Question Right Sort Story Take Take A Chance Try Voices Write You

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That's the novelist's job: to peel back the layers and look underneath.

~David Bergen

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I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.

~David Bergen

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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.

~David Bergen

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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.

~David Bergen

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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.'

~David Bergen

Topics: Age Ages Born Car Children Confuse Dates Day Dealer Depression Despair Down God Grow Grow Up Her Hope Innocence Lives Names Notes Office One Day Other Reason Some Suffers Then Till Title Up Well Who Woman Wrote

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Novelist

Born: January 14th, 1957

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