Canadian - Novelist | January 14, 1957 -
I think my writing was certainly shaped from having lived in a place like Niverville as well as by the family that I came from, the religion that I had, that type of thing.
David Bergen
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I may not have written the stories that I've written if I hadn't ended up in Niverville. I don't know; I don't know. How can you know?
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I think a construction project for me is like writing a novel. I can't do the project unless I can envision sort of the whole structure and see what the end result might be.
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Every year, the Giller jury is different. You write the best book you can and throw it out there.
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As a writer, you write the book, you give it to your editor, it's copy edited, it's published, it's thrown out there, and then there's a response.
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Though I loved books as a young boy, I loved sports even more. I wanted to be a quarterback in the CFL.
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I was a big reader of Zane Grey as a young boy, and so horses and the West figured large in my imagination.
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I like characters who are contradictory.
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I usually submit a novel at a certain number of words, and when I've finished working with my editor, the novel is longer than when I submitted it. I need my editor to help me open up the story.
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An editor is an accomplice, looking in from the outside. That objective view is essential. We don't write in a vacuum, and we don't publish in a vacuum.
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At the age of twenty, having published nothing and having had little guidance in my reading, I decided that I wanted to write.
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Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.
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