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Toronto is my home. It's where my family is. I think I feel an obligation to be within subway distance of the people who raised me.

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I think that so many people who have children seem to want other people to have children in order to make their choice feel more essential, more inevitable, and just more right.

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It's so weird how our existence hinges on just absolute crazy chance, but it feels so essential. It's like, 'Nothing would be here if you weren't here,' because you are the centre of your universe.

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There's something about a woman's life choices that invites commentary, whether it's been invited or not.

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I have this memory of being 15 years old, sitting with a friend on the steps of a little bookstore on Bloor Street in Toronto and saying, 'I'll never take money for my writing!' I had such idealism about this idea of trading your soul for money.

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I feel like every single time I've published a book, there's some little light in me that goes out. I've seen the way people can misunderstand or misinterpret things, if not maliciously, then without a lot of sensitivity.

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The reason I write is because I have questions. What I don't want is for people to forget that I'm a novelist and think I'm a sociologist or something. I don't want to feel trapped into a corner where I don't belong.

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An artist's love for what they create is what creates love.

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Tove Jansson was the most successful Finnish illustrator and writer of children's books of her day, and she was the most widely read Finn abroad. She began her life as an artist early - she had her first drawing published at fifteen.

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A line drawn with love can make us as vulnerable as what the line depicts.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Writer

Born: December 25th, 1976

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