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More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don't know how healthy it is, but I am creating a very private bubble that I live in.

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I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.

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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.

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After 'The Sisters Brothers,' I tried to write a contemporary story dealing with an investment adviser in New York City who moves to Paris. I did all this research, but after about a year and any number of pages written, I was bored stiff.

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I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.

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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.

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I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for everyone. And people should be moved by it.

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I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.

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Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it. But looking back now, I'm really glad I did, because it forces independence on you.

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The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in westerns, or there's a minimal amount of it.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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