Zitat des Tages von David Bergen:
You are only as good as your last book, and so there has to be a book.
I was a big reader of Zane Grey as a young boy, and so horses and the West figured large in my imagination.
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?
As a writer, I'm always aware of the fact that there are so many books out there.
Though I loved books as a young boy, I loved sports even more. I wanted to be a quarterback in the CFL.
I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.
One day, at my office, I wrote down some names and dates and notes, and I wrote a title, 'The Age of Despair,' and then some other 'Ages' - Innocence, God, Reason, Hope - and I wrote this as well: 'Woman, born in 1930, lives till the age of 80 or so, suffers depression, marries a car dealer, has children who grow up to confuse her.'
The IMPAC is a terribly important award.
Every year, the Giller jury is different. You write the best book you can and throw it out there.
I like characters who are contradictory.
The first accepted piece of writing is the most exciting. No other publishing experience matches it. Perhaps jaundice sets in, or expectations are raised, or one starts to think that one is better than is the truth.
For me, when I 'discover' a story, there is a feeling of buoyancy and clarity, perhaps similar to early morning out on a prairie highway, when darkness lifts and reveals the outline of farmhouses and copses of trees in the distance.
