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If you look at footage of the Newfoundland Regiment, you see they are at rest and giddy and being silly with one another. Silliness is the antidote to trench warfare.

~Michael Winter

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I plan to live to be 98, so I'll be the guy at Dundas and Yonge flogging a box of mouldy novels.

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If I didn't write sex scenes, all my characters would head to the kitchen and make cups of tea.

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There are scenes from books I'm happy with. I tend to think my books are all broken. But then my favourite reads are almost always books that don't, in the end, pull off what they set out to do.

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Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined her stories, figured out how they worked.

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Wild and urban at the same time - that's the type of woman I'm with.

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How does the past ambush us? How can we be accurate about what happened, how can we be true to it? And can war be declared over? And can we ever evolve from the notion of war, of nations, of us versus them?

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Hockey wasn't invented but discovered. The game, and the large organizing idea behind Stephen Smith's deeply personal 'Puckstruck,' sleeps in ponds and in the crooked limbs of trees overhead; we merely pluck a stick from the sky and skate over the frozen world to find ourselves and each other.

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I approached writing a story for the CBC Literary Awards as a mercenary venture - $5,000 for one story, not bad. Now, how do you win it? Jurors are wading through skyscrapers of paper, looking for one story that stands out.

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If you are having trouble with a story, it may not be an issue with the quality of the writing - there may just be too much of it.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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