English - Novelist | 1974 -
Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.
Tom Rachman
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What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory.
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When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out.
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I had pictured journalism as I'd seen it in the most ennobling films, where the reporter battles for the truth, propelled by conviction, and is triumphant. There are journalists who fit that ideal.
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My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting.
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That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.
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My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream to make films.
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I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking I'd go to NYU film school and see if I could make a career of it.
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The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.
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I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.
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Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment.
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The way I found time to write 'The Imperfectionists' was that I took work as a copy editor at the 'International Herald Tribune' in Paris, working full-time for approximately six months, then taking my savings from that and writing full-time, then returning after six months, and so on, until the book was done!
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