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You don't need a religious background to strive for something good, for genuine compassion and love for others.

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This is a cliche, but in fiction, I feel it is easier for me to get to some sort of truth, some kind of more honest writing.

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A lot of times, people think that it doesn't make sense for people to be depressed when they have everything, a loving husband, a successful career, fame and fortune. I wanted to make this point that profound despair can strike anybody.

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A depressed person is often a person who will push others away. If you are pushed away and pushed away and pushed away, you have to have an enormous amount of inner resources to keep going back.

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'Irma Voth' is my sixth book, but it's only the third time I've featured Mennonite settings and characters.

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I would never want to deny my Mennonite background and culture; I'll always feel like and be identified as a Mennonite and therefore possess that little extra authority on our beliefs. I also see myself as a Canadian writer.

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Like every Canadian, I have been taught that one of the most important functions of art is to supply and elaborate the myths and narratives of nationhood.

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Canada has, at times, represented itself as a country in a valiant struggle against powerful and menacing agents that are indifferent to its special practices and sensibilities - most especially American culture. It's the old, outdated garrison mentality.

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I don't even know what 'successful' means. We're all failures. Look at the world. We're all complicit.

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When a person becomes a legend, the very thing that makes them human and knowable is killed off, so it's like being killed over and over and over again, for all eternity.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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