We asked our authors from around the world to share their thoughts on why they write, why they read, and the books that have influenced them.
Here’s what they had to say.
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Ottawa Public Library Foundation
I write because I am happiest when I am in what Tillie Olsen once described to me as “that bless’ed state.” I write because I love story, love to imagine life in other times. I explore theme through my characters, and I have written about loss, love and war, PTSD, about what a life is worth, how we stay in balance, what it might have been like to grow up as a deaf child in the early 1900s, about how an artist reconciles his childhood past as a prisoner in a Canadian internment camp, about how art saves us. Every book I create, every detail I uncover through research, carries me along on a unique journey.
