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Alexi Zentner

Ezekiel Boone’s books, starting with ‘The Hatching’ series, are meant to be big, sprawling, smart, entertaining books that are fun above all else; the literary novels written under my real name, Alexi Zentner, are certainly a little more quiet.

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Alexi Zentner

While Shakespeare wasn’t the first voice in the room, in North America and Europe, he’s one of the loudest voices.

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Alexi Zentner

I get very tired of books that feel emotionally empty. I would much rather have writers err on the side of being overly sentimental than not. I think that the perfect balance is a story that moves you without being maudlin, but I don’t enjoy books that are empty of emotion and there’s no connection to the characters.

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Alexi Zentner

If you take a cold, blunt view of most religions, and you sort of say, ‘Well, here’s the basis for it,’ most of them sound crazy. It’s the belief that makes them real. I was interested in that question: When does a belief become a myth? When does something you believe in become just a story?

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The story of trying to live up to the myth is more interesting than the myth itself.

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My children have stolen my dreams in a very literal sense. I’ve lost months in the minutes and hours that Sabine and Zoey have needed me at night, their thin, butterfly-beating hearts pushed against me in the darkness.

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Alexi Zentner

I had not expected to ever be in a position to able to say, ‘Hey, see the magazine with J. Lo on the cover? They reviewed my book inside.’

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There is a huge tension in trying to write with small children because they demand your attention and your time with a fierceness that can be matched by nothing else, but if you are successful in writing while you have small children, I actually think that your writing is likely to be deeper than it was before.

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I’ve said many times that there only two things to write about: love and death. And when you have children, you remember that the world is full of sharp corners and dangerous things, and suddenly you have these small, soft creatures, which you love in almost painful way.

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I liked the idea of being a writer more than I liked the idea of writing.

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Alexi Zentner

Growing up in Waterloo, the Governor General’s Award wasn’t something I even thought to wish for.

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Alexi Zentner

When I’m writing a novel, one of the things I do is get big poster boards. They’re actually canvases that artists use. And I keep all the characters’ names on them. If you write a big novel, there’s a lot of characters.

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