Zitat des Tages von Chris Bohjalian:
People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend or family member to a novel I believe they'll cherish but might not otherwise have thought to pick up and read.
I do have hobbies - I garden and bike, for example - but there's nothing in the world that gives me even a fraction of the pleasure that I derive from hanging around with my wife and daughter.
I answer two or three letters a day. I'm just not the he-has-a-secretary kind of guy.
I need complete silence when I write.
On a regular basis if you're trying to produce something, I think you should work every day and set achievable goals.
When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend.
There is a lot of my childhood in 'The Sandcastle Girls.'
I think the most important lesson isn't necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand yourself and write one specific kind of book, but to write the kind of books you love to read.
My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.
I loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one.
