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There's something about the idea of writing, and thinking about writing as a form of prayer - the way as a writer you call out into the world and throw your words into the world. You're not praying to a god, but you're almost conjuring a reader to arrive. That's what books do: they're an invitation to readers.

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People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called mad, and sometimes they're called fiction writers. I always feel lucky that I live in a culture where fiction writing is legal and not seen as pathology.

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Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.

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When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me.

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I am really interested in the way we relate to time. In particular, the way readers and writers talk to each other. Casting your voice out into the future is very beautiful to me.

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When I'm writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of green tea. I wear wrist cuffs to keep my wrists warm and minimize irritation from extended contact with the surface of my desk. I sit down and write.

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Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading.

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There's something about Vonnegut's deadpan irony that I really like. And I like Borges' puzzle structure.

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Canada has always been a great place for literature. It's strong and growing stronger, and there will always be reading, and there will always be great writers.

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I've always played that edge of fact and fiction. I used to be a filmmaker, and certainly in film that's a line that filmmakers cross more readily and more easily than novelists.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Novelist

Born: March 12th, 1956

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