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Chris Bohjalian Quotes

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight Picture Quote #1

The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn’t a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?) Picture Quote #1

If you look at my personal library, you will notice that it ranges from Henry James to Steig Larsson, from Margaret Atwood to Max Hastings. There’s Jane Austen and Tom Perrotta and volumes of letters from Civil War privates. It’s pretty eclectic Picture Quote #1

$I do have hobbies - I garden and bike, for example - but there’s nothing in the world that gives me even a fraction of the pleasure that I derive from hanging around with my wife and daughter Picture Quote #1$

People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend or family member to a novel I believe they’ll cherish but might not otherwise have thought to pick up and read Picture Quote #1

I loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one Picture Quote #1

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Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They’re fun to read - and, yes, fun to write Picture Quote #1

When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend Picture Quote #1

If you are stymied as a writer, if it’s just not coming together, then take the pressure off and don’t feel that you need to write 1,000 words today; just write one really good sentence Picture Quote #1

I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better Picture Quote #1

But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle? Picture Quote #1

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My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves Picture Quote #1

Dead … might not be quiet at all Picture Quote #1

I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better Picture Quote #1

But it’s funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want Picture Quote #1

Now it is you who everyone presumes is so fragile. Wounded. Scarred. Maybe they’re right. Perhaps you are. A nursery rhyme comes into your head, and, like an egg, you allow yourself to topple onto your side, your legs still pulled hard against your torso. You lie like that a long while, watching the chrome shell of the tape measure sparkle until the sun moves Picture Quote #1

Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine... and then make them plausible Picture Quote #1

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And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past Picture Quote #1

Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed Picture Quote #1

We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven Picture Quote #1

My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped by them. She thought the key was to find the healing in the hurt Picture Quote #1

He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not Picture Quote #1

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With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight (Chris Bohjalian Quotes) The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn’t a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?) (Chris Bohjalian Quotes) If you look at my personal library, you will notice that it ranges from Henry James to Steig Larsson, from Margaret Atwood to Max Hastings. There’s Jane Austen and Tom Perrotta and volumes of letters from Civil War privates. It’s pretty eclectic. (Chris Bohjalian Quotes) I do have hobbies - I garden and bike, for example - but there’s nothing in the world that gives me even a fraction of the pleasure that I derive from hanging around with my wife and daughter. (Chris Bohjalian Quotes) People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend or family member to a novel I believe they’ll cherish but might not otherwise have thought to pick up and read. (Chris Bohjalian Quotes) I loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one. (Chris Bohjalian Quotes) Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They’re fun to read - and, yes, fun to write. (Chris Bohjalian Quotes) When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend. (Chris Bohjalian Quotes) If you are stymied as a writer, if it’s just not coming together, then take the pressure off and don’t feel that you need to write 1,000 words today; just write one really good sentence. (Chris Bohjalian Quotes) I think the most important lesson isn’t necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand yourself and write one specific kind of book, but to write the kind of books you love to read. (Chris Bohjalian Quotes) I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better.... (Chris Bohjalian Quotes) But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle? (Chris Bohjalian Quotes) My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves (Chris Bohjalian Quotes) Dead … might not be quiet at all (Chris Bohjalian Quotes) I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better (Chris Bohjalian Quotes) But it’s funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want (Chris Bohjalian Quotes) Now it is you who everyone presumes is so fragile. Wounded. Scarred. Maybe they’re right. Perhaps you are. A nursery rhyme comes into your head, and, like an egg, you allow yourself to topple onto your side, your legs still pulled hard against your torso. You lie like that a long while, watching the chrome shell of the tape measure sparkle until the sun moves (Chris Bohjalian Quotes) Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine... and then make them plausible (Chris Bohjalian Quotes) And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past (Chris Bohjalian Quotes) Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed (Chris Bohjalian Quotes) We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven (Chris Bohjalian Quotes) My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped by them. She thought the key was to find the healing in the hurt (Chris Bohjalian Quotes) He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not (Chris Bohjalian Quotes)