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Obituaries were among my favorite to write because they have elements no other news stories have - a story from start to finish with a proper conclusion.

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I don't like most contemporary art. But I think if you talked to any person who's heavily involved in contemporary art, they'd say the same thing. If you go to a biennale, you don't expect to like much of it.

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When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out.

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I had pictured journalism as I'd seen it in the most ennobling films, where the reporter battles for the truth, propelled by conviction, and is triumphant. There are journalists who fit that ideal.

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My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting.

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That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.

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My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream to make films.

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I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking I'd go to NYU film school and see if I could make a career of it.

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The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.

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I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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