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I'm a big believer in the complex realities of young people's lives.

At university, my generation were ready to fight, but we didn't really have anything to fight for.

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For me, the watershed was Hurricane Katrina. If that didn't get people out on the streets, then what will?

For those of us whose thoughts digress; for whom unexpected juxtapositions are exhilarating rather than tiresome; who aim, if always inadequately, to convey life's experience in some semblance of its complexity - for such writers, the semi-colon is invaluable.

In the world I've lived in, gay marriage, for example, seems completely logical. And yet there are many people who don't live in that world.

The feeling I had several times in youth, when lying in a field staring up at the night sky, that I might fall into the infinite void - for people like me, this idea mostly provokes anxiety.

In making up stories, as in reading stories, I could create a contained world in which an experience is shared in its entirety.

I actually did work and produced two short dissertations, one on Faulkner and one on the film criticism of the stream-of-consciousness novelist Dorothy Richardson.

I liked the idea of being from 'somewhere else.' I do think that's inherited. My father never had a fixed sense of where home was, and for my sister and me, it is much easier not to belong than to...

I sometimes feel like a British writer more so than I feel like an American writer. But I think that has to do with my subjective understanding of what it means to be either of those things.

I grew up on British fiction, and I write perhaps more directly out of that tradition.

If I look at my make-up, Canada is a huge part of what I am.

I always feel as though I'm not quite Canadian enough for everybody.

At the end of the day, what would be a Canadian sensibility? Is it Michael Ondaatje? Alice Munro? Is Margaret Atwood more Canadian than Neil Bissoondath?

When you move around a lot, there are little bits of you from everywhere. I mean, my father's French, and I speak French, and there's a kind of struggle in me that says, 'I'd like to be French.' But I've...

As a kid, I used to tell all these stories. I remember meeting a childhood friend, and we were talking. We remembered that I had made up this story about going to Mars. And she looked at me and said,...

There are people who live under the delusion that simply because they will it to be so, it will be so.

In midlife, I feel that my tendency to acquire books is rather like someone smoking two packs a day: it's a terrible vice that I wish I could shuck.

I love my books, and with all their dog-ears and under-linings they are irreplaceable, but I sometimes wish they'd just vanish.

To be weighed down by things - books, furniture - seems somehow terrible to me.

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