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" There's this moment when kids realize that they have power and that they can use it. "

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" Especially since having children, a lot of the time if you ask me, 'Have you read that book?' the answer would be 'not personally.' "

" I'll always find the hardest path. Needless to say, not always a good idea. "

" I have always been interested in that relationship between what happens in our head and what happens in the world. "

" I'm a different person in French. I'm a different person in New York. I'm a different person in Canada. "

" The relevant question isn't, 'Is this a potential friend for me?' but, 'Is this character alive?' "

" I feel as though there's a lot invested in my background in being an outsider. "

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

" In a globalised world, so many of us move around so much. You lose things, but you also gain things - or hope to gain them. "

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

" We think that we know people from this constellation of points: 'I know that story. I know that girl. I've heard that story a thousand times.' But actually, you never know that story. "

" In making up stories, as in reading stories, I could create a contained world in which an experience is shared in its entirety. "

" Women aren't supposed to want stuff. They're not supposed to have high emotions. "

" I liked the idea of being from 'somewhere else.' I do think that's inherited. My father never had a fixed sense of where home was, and for my sister and me, it is much easier not to belong than to belong. "

" Henry James and Edith Wharton are huge for me because they gave me a way to understand America while still respecting the European backgrounds of my relatives. "

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

" It's still unacceptable for women to have negative emotions, especially anger, and I was trying to write against that. "

" For those of us whose thoughts digress; for whom unexpected juxtapositions are exhilarating rather than tiresome; who aim, if always inadequately, to convey life's experience in some semblance of its complexity - for such writers, the semi-colon is invaluable. "

" If you're reading to find friends, you're in deep trouble. "

" If you're rich, you can leave a library, a building, or a hospital wing. But writing leaves behind a visceral sense of what it was like to be alive on the planet in a particular time. Writing tells us what it meant for someone to be human. "

" I was someone who believed that every day should be different from the last. "

" I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc. "

" The fictional narratives that television, film, and the news provide for girls and young women are appalling. "

" The way I saw the world as a child was not wrong. And it's okay to see the world that way. If it doesn't hurt anybody. "

" Awards bolster your confidence in wonderful ways. But they aren't the world. "

" The feeling I had several times in youth, when lying in a field staring up at the night sky, that I might fall into the infinite void - for people like me, this idea mostly provokes anxiety. "

" I always say to my students, 'If you can do anything other than writing and be happy, then you should.' "

" In the world I've lived in, gay marriage, for example, seems completely logical. And yet there are many people who don't live in that world. "

" I had a memory span about as long as the lines in a school play. "