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I tend to push whatever is looking over my shoulder away when I am writing. It's once the box of books arrive that I say I'm going to be pilloried for this or that. But then you realize it's done, and there is nothing I can do. I'm proud of the book.

~David Bergen

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As a writer, I'm always aware of the fact that there are so many books out there.

~David Bergen

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I think my writing was certainly shaped from having lived in a place like Niverville as well as by the family that I came from, the religion that I had, that type of thing.

~David Bergen

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I may not have written the stories that I've written if I hadn't ended up in Niverville. I don't know; I don't know. How can you know?

~David Bergen

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Every year, the Giller jury is different. You write the best book you can and throw it out there.

~David Bergen

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As a writer, you write the book, you give it to your editor, it's copy edited, it's published, it's thrown out there, and then there's a response.

~David Bergen

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Though I loved books as a young boy, I loved sports even more. I wanted to be a quarterback in the CFL.

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I was a big reader of Zane Grey as a young boy, and so horses and the West figured large in my imagination.

~David Bergen

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I like characters who are contradictory.

~David Bergen

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I usually submit a novel at a certain number of words, and when I've finished working with my editor, the novel is longer than when I submitted it. I need my editor to help me open up the story.

~David Bergen

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Novelist

Born: January 14th, 1957

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