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For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.

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I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.

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Female hysteria is a subject I'm very fond of. I always try to bring it in somewhere. For me, it is the finest part of the line between comedy and tragedy.

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In domestic life, the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She 'wants' to be at home, and because she is a woman, she's allowed to want it. This desire is her mystique, it is both what enables her to domesticate herself and what disempowers her.

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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?

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A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common - the desire to write - could almost be considered meaningless.

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As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.

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My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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