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If you don't try your hardest, and you're unsuccessful, you always have that excuse.
Alexi Zentner
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I grew up reading thrillers, science fiction, fantasy - you name it - and one day I asked myself if there was a reason why a fear of spiders was so common. Was there something buried deep in our evolutionary history that made being scared of spiders a survival instinct?
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As much as I love my daughters, I wasn't happy with only being a stay-at-home-dad, and my wife encouraged me to try, to really try, at being a writer. More than anything, I didn't want to let her down.
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My children have stolen my dreams in a very literal sense. I've lost months in the minutes and hours that Sabine and Zoey have needed me at night, their thin, butterfly-beating hearts pushed against me in the darkness.
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Growing up in Waterloo, the Governor General's Award wasn't something I even thought to wish for.
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To map the Governor General's Award is to map both the past and the future of Canadian literature, and to be nominated for my first book is wonderful.
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Ezekiel Boone's books, starting with 'The Hatching' series, are meant to be big, sprawling, smart, entertaining books that are fun above all else; the literary novels written under my real name, Alexi Zentner, are certainly a little more quiet.
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I'm absolutely terrified of spiders.
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One of my oldest friends has a cottage on Smoke Lake in Algonquin Provincial Park, and it's one of my favorite places in the world.
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I love teaching creative writing, and I think I'm good at it, but in a different life, I could have been teaching elementary school.
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There's very little that's comparable to seeing the spark in a student's face when she gets something that she's been struggling with.
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I started writing 'The Lobster Kings' the day after I sold my first novel, 'Touch.'
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