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I come from a working-class background, and I thought I had to be studying something that would get me a job.

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I think authors like me are always struggling with the idea that they should have a brand and a Facebook author page and they should get Twitter accounts. I don't know what to do with them.

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I decided a long time ago to be myself and not worry too much about cultivating some kind of personality that didn't feel natural or true to who I am.

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Keep a copy of 'Islands in the Stream' by Ernest Hemingway on the left hand side of your desk. Keep Fitzgerald's 'The Crack Up' on the right. When you get stuck, pick them up and pretend that they are having a fight, like you used to do with your GI Joes.

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It's doubtful that any fiction worth reading has been produced on a computer running Windows Vista.

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When revising, consider whether you have written anything that will hurt or offend a member of your immediate family. If the answer is no, go back and add something.

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Never use dogs to symbolize anything. That is ridiculous. Always ensure that any dogs are just dogs; i.e., characters in the story who happen to be dogs.

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I think, as writers, our first responsibility is to writing an honest story. Tell the story you want to tell, without pulling your punches.

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My dad was a real man's man, and so were my brothers, in a small town where hockey is king. It's a masculine culture. It made me really attentive to what it meant to be a guy.

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I even felt like I liked guys better than women - that men were relevant and women weren't. It took me a while to realize I'd been socialized to have a slighting view of my own gender.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Novelist

Born: January 24th, 1970

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