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" It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion. "

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

" You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time. "

" I'm still learning my craft. "

" If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure. "

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

" May books spread the world over! "

" Most of us get our history through story. "

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

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

" I am not an autobiographical writer. "

Autobiographical

" My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it? "

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

" 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. "

" A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality. "

" I write slowly. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists. "

" A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe. "

" The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book. "

" If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested. "

" 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. "

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

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

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