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Miriam Toews

Ignore all advice about writing. Leave your blood on every page. Every page!

– Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews

All the books I’ve read, I’ve read at the right moment.

– Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

– Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews

At one point in my life, I wanted to do a master’s degree in Irish literature, but I ended up getting pregnant instead.

– Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews

A person might see that I’ve blurbed a certain book and decide they want nothing to do with it! Like, ‘If that reprobate Toews likes it, forget it!’ So, it’s a crapshoot. But it feels good to be able to praise a book that I love or that has been written by a new writer.

– Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews

When a person becomes a legend, the very thing that makes them human and knowable is killed off, so it’s like being killed over and over and over again, for all eternity.

– Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews

I don’t even know what ‘successful’ means. We’re all failures. Look at the world. We’re all complicit.

– Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews

Canada has, at times, represented itself as a country in a valiant struggle against powerful and menacing agents that are indifferent to its special practices and sensibilities – most especially American culture. It’s the old, outdated garrison mentality.

– Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews

Like every Canadian, I have been taught that one of the most important functions of art is to supply and elaborate the myths and narratives of nationhood.

– Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews

I would never want to deny my Mennonite background and culture; I’ll always feel like and be identified as a Mennonite and therefore possess that little extra authority on our beliefs. I also see myself as a Canadian writer.

– Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews

Irma Voth’ is my sixth book, but it’s only the third time I’ve featured Mennonite settings and characters.

– Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews

A depressed person is often a person who will push others away. If you are pushed away and pushed away and pushed away, you have to have an enormous amount of inner resources to keep going back.

– Miriam Toews

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