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#1

“Embrace the importance of curiosity. Certainty is the opposite of growth. Don't live life as if you have everything figured out. Read, be curious, and always be open to change — because after all, where has your current thought process gotten you?”
― Kathleen Trotter, Your Fittest Future Self: Making Choices Today for a Happier, Healthier, Fitter Future You

tags: curiosity, fitness-inspiration, growth, motivational, reading

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#2

“You -have- to love your monster.”
― Philippa Dowding, Everton Miles Is Stranger Than Me: The Night Flyer's Handbook

tags: antagonist, authors, evilness, monster, monsters, psychology, psychopath, villian, writing, writing-inspiration

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#3

“As part of the healing process, change your perception of yourself from “victim” to that of “advocate” and “survivor.”
― Don Easton, Angel in the Full Moon

tags: abuse, sexual-abuse, speak-up, survivor, survivors-of-abuse, victim, violence, violence-against-women

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#4

“but here I am, in this study that looks across a road well travelled in the rushing mornings to work, and hardly travelled with such anxiety and intent during the hours that come before the rush to work, walked on, and peed on, by the homeless, and the prostitutes and the pimps, and the men and women going home to apartments in the sky, surrounding and overlooking Moss Park park, as I like to call it. Moss Park park is where life stretches out itself on its back, prostrate in filthy, hopeless, bouts of heroism and stardom, for these men who lie on the benches and the dying grass, are heroes to themselves and to one another,”
― Austin Clarke, 'Membering

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#5

“Canada is the place where maple syrup is its own food group.”
― Jenny McWha

tags: canada, humour, publishing

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#6

“No matter how good it is, your book will not sell itself.”
― Elinor Florence

tags: authors, book-business, books, publishing, writer, writing

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#7

“Too often the mentally ill are marginalized as people who just can’t pull up their socks. If only it were that simple.”
― Suzanne F. Kingsmill, Crazy Dead

tags: depression-quotes, mental-illness, mental-illness-stigma, mystery

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#8

“We build this country ourselves every day and we have to be, in the most positive sense, totally unreal.”
― J.C. Villamere, Is Canada Even Real?: How a Nation Built on Hobos, Beavers, Weirdos, and Hip Hop Convinced the World to Beliebe

tags: canada-inspirational, canadastrong, canadian, canadian-literature, cultural-differences, cultural-identity, culture, pop-culture

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#9

“Each time I discovered a potential link between one character’s story and another’s, several more connections would reveal themselves, like a beautiful, complex web spinning itself.”
― Richard Scarsbrook, Rockets Versus Gravity

tags: author, character-development, characters, circle-of-ideas, circle-plots, fiction, novel, story-web, the-writing-process, web, writing

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#10

“It is unlikely that we will hit a home run anytime soon but if we are unable to get rid of offensive sports team nicknames, we will strike out.”
― Adam Dodek, The Canadian Constitution

tags: baseball, cleveland, first-nations, indians, racism, right-and-freedoms

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#11

“Every story needs some sort of secret that impels it forward. Otherwise why would the reader bother to keep on turning the pages?”
― Deb Loughead

tags: author, narrative, pages, secrets-we-keep, story, turning-the-page, writing

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#12

“I hope that when the characters in my novels dream beyond their current circumstance, it inspires the reader to do the same.”
― Kristine Scarrow, If This Is Home

tags: a-better-life, aspire, books, inspirational-quotes

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#13

“I have high hopes for the book and have already made a down payment on a Ferrari. Well, it’s actually a small metal model of a Ferrari, kind of like a Dinky Toy, but a little bit bigger.”
― Paul Benedetti

tags: author, humor, real-life-struggle, writers, writing

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#14

“Even now, I am anxious about the naked thoughts that I have shared. The observations are blisteringly honest and of course they have to be.”
― John Conrad, Among the Walking Wounded: Soldiers, Survival, and PTSD

tags: memoir, memoir-writing, ptsd, soldiers, writing, writing-quotes

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#15

“When I started school in 1958 there were no books written by Aboriginals in the school system and everything about Native life was written by white people through their eyes.

Now, Aboriginal writers can tell their stories. They have always been our narratives to tell, not others.”
― Rick Revelle, I Am Algonquin

tags: aboriginal, aboriginal-culture, cultural-appropriation, first-nations, telling-stories

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#16

“Writing about Aboriginal themes means joining the dots from the colonial policies of the past to the problems faced by First Nations, Métis, and Inuit today. It means acknowledging the wrongs and the pain.”
― Lynda A. Archer, Tears in the Grass

tags: aboriginal, aboriginal-history, canada, first-nations

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#17

“I am, to my core, Canadian, so, by osmosis, everything I write reflects that upbringing.”
― Elinor Florence, Bird's Eye View

tags: author-quotes, canada, canadian, writing

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#18

“It would seem I wouldn’t have written anything if I weren’t influenced by Canada’s history, its weather, the landscape, and its stories.”
― Anne McDonald

tags: canada, canadian-history, canadian-identity, canadian-writer, miss-confederation, writing

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#19

“Magic and mystery writing follow the same, time-tested, three-act structure to stage their drama; set the scene, build the suspense, reveal the answer. In magic, these phases are known as the pledge, the turn and the prestige.”
― Steve Burrows, A Shimmer of Hummingbirds

tags: author, magic, writing

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#20

“People who have suffered understand pain and are often the best at helping others.”
― Nadia Fezzani, Real Life Super Heroes

tags: heroes-journey, human-nature, real-life-heroes, super-heroes

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#21

“Though I didn’t start out plotting a life for Meg, it happened as the writing and the storylines unfolded, much like life itself. I would place obstacles in Meg’s way and see how she handled them. Sometimes she overcame them with ease, other times with great difficulty.”
― R.J. Harlick, Purple Palette for Murder

tags: author, characters, mystery, obstacles, writing, writing-process

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#22

“I drive a red, snow-covered Benz with a Drake air freshener hanging from the rearview and an interior that's liberally sprinkled with flakes of Timbit glaze.”
― J.C. Villamere, Is Canada Even Real?: How a Nation Built on Hobos, Beavers, Weirdos, and Hip Hop Convinced the World to Beliebe

tags: canada, canadian-identity

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#23

“I’m not a political commentator. Nor am I in any way a fan of politics. I tell people I believe in good governance, but not in politics.”
― Jeffrey Round, The God Game

tags: author, fiction, political-commentary, politics

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#24

“That girl was trouble.
And she was. I know she was. I know that better than anyone.”
― Oakland Ross, Swimming with Horses

tags: girl, humor, trouble

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#25

“Studies have shown a woman looking for a
'sense of humour' wants a man who
makes jokes and who likes to laugh.
A man looking for the same quality in a
woman does not expect her to be funny;
rather, he wants her to laugh at his jokes.”
― Lili Boisvert, Screwed: How Women Are Set Up to Fail at Sex

tags: femininity, feminism, gender-equality, gender-inequality, gender-studies, men-and-women, relationships, sense-of-humor

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#26

“I am convinced that something out of the ordinary, if not truly unique, is occurring in Toronto. It feels like the city is emerging from a chrysalis.”
― Ken Greenberg, Toronto Reborn: Design Successes and Challenges

tags: architecture, chrysalis, city, design, inspire, structure, success, transformation

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#27

“Elias, I want you to know that I loved you. Despite your flaws. Despite your secrets.”
― Eddy Boudel Tan, After Elias

tags: inspirational, love

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#28

“It was a dangerous, batshit thing for me to do, but true loneliness will rule your life”
― Victoria Hetherington, Autonomy

tags: dystopian-fiction

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#29

“It isn’t possible to really know a city without working in it. Not because work forces you to interact with unpleasant people you would otherwise avoid (which can easily be managed by hanging around an art gallery or going to the beach), but because a city is essentially a massive production line, and only by entering its infernal machinery can you see how it operates.”
― André Forget, In the City of Pigs

tags: literary-fiction

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#30

“The shower sprinkled like light rain with the occasional burst of pressure, as though some heavy cloud were passing overhead. Hair and unspecified fuzzes stuck to the stall walls and floor. Which did kind of make it feel like home.”
― Sara Flemington, Egg Island

tags: literary-fiction, road-trip

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