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" I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman. "

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" I love my books, and with all their dog-ears and under-linings they are irreplaceable, but I sometimes wish they'd just vanish. "

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" Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world. "

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" For me, the watershed was Hurricane Katrina. If that didn't get people out on the streets, then what will? "

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" We read to find life, in all its possibilities. "

" If I look at my make-up, Canada is a huge part of what I am. "

" For many of us, we set out thinking there will be time in the future, and then suddenly we find ourselves at a moment when we have to acknowledge that the future isn't infinite. "

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