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" A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality. "

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" I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things. "

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" Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction. "

" Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect. "

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" In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome. "

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" I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land. "

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" Most of us get our history through story. "

" How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence. "

" I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet. "

" My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it? "

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" The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction. "

" May books spread the world over! "

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" If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested. "

" Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies. "

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" Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling. "