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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.

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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

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I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.

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How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.

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I'm still learning my craft.

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I am not an autobiographical writer.

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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Author

Born: June 25th, 1963

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