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I don't like to pretend I was guided in any way by the supernatural world, but the more you talk about that, the easier it is to dismiss those notions.

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When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.

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I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays; I would write my own stories.

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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.

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Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.

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The mystery at the center of 'Burial Rites' is not who killed whom on the night of March 13, 1828. It is the mystery each of us encounters: Can we every truly know another? Can we ever truly know ourselves?

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You know you're going to have a good day when your morning begins with breakfast in the same room as Carrie Tiffany, David Vann and Lionel Shriver.

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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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