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

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" The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction. "

" 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. "

" Most of us get our history through story. "

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

" In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome. "

" Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction. "

" Cinema is incredibly concise. "

" I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist. "

" Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling. "

" Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies. "

" I write slowly. "

" Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea. "

" I'm still learning my craft. "

" I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds. "

" I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land. "

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

" The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story. "

" I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things. "

" A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things. "

" Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts. "

" Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that. "

" Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want. "

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