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"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"
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"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."
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"A mansion begins with one brick. A forest begins with one tree. A harvest begins with one seed. An ocean begins with one drop. A friendship begins with one gesture. A fire begins with one spark. A revolution begins with one idea."
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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."
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"The past is but the past of a beginning."
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"To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending."
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"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
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"The first stage of any development is infancy."
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"I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print."
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"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."
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"A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write."
Dream
"I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel."
Character
"Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female."
Dream
"I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important."
Writing
"I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland."
Beginning
"The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place."
Time
"When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it."
Love
"Life is not a dress rehearsal."
Life
"Life should be embraced like a lover."
Life
"I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along."
Writing
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