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I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my mid-twenties.

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I think making friends you can work with is a skill like any other, developing those particular kinds of intimacies. They're intimacies like any other, but they grow in a definite direction, not just willy-nilly like normal friendships.

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I saw what was wonderful about human companionship. Before that, I was quite content to be alone, to be a solitary wandering person, and I thought I always would be. Love changed that.

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Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances!

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I find that when I'm in a relationship, I'm just so 'in it,' you couldn't even call it an art; it's such embroilment. With a friendship, you can choose a little bit more how to behave. You can be guided more.

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A woman will always be made to feel like a criminal, whatever choice she makes, however hard she tries. Mothers feel like criminals. Non-mothers do, too.

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Nonfiction, to me, feels like an argument, whereas a novel is like a series of questions.

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Women without children can help mothers, and we can just be all in this together.

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I didn't wander into motherhood or nonmotherhood unconsciously, recklessly. I gave it due consideration.

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You think you're writing the most important book, you think you're writing the most stupid book, and you never really know before it's done that it's going to be done.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Writer

Born: December 25th, 1976

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