David Bergen
David Bergen
David Bergenis a Canadian novelist from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He has published eight novels and one collection of short stories since 1993. His most recent novel, Leaving Tomorrow, was published in September 2014...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth14 January 1957
CountryCanada
arrive books box push realize shoulder tend whatever
I tend to push whatever is looking over my shoulder away when I am writing. It's once the box of books arrive that I say I'm going to be pilloried for this or that. But then you realize it's done, and there is nothing I can do. I'm proud of the book.
arrive brief expect happen life means novel time
In my brief writing life, it means I am still lucky that I have at least one more novel to complete. I do not expect that a story will arrive just because it is time to write another novel. It doesn't happen that way.
except liked numerous sent stories time wrote
The story wrote quickly. I called it 'Where You're From,' and I sent it out, as I had numerous other stories over the years. Except this time I got a letter back saying that it would be published. Someone out there had liked the story. I was thirty-one years old.
editor objective publish
An editor is an accomplice, looking in from the outside. That objective view is essential. We don't write in a vacuum, and we don't publish in a vacuum.
best throw
Every year, the Giller jury is different. You write the best book you can and throw it out there.
continue general great
Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.
certain editor finished longer novel number submit submitted
I usually submit a novel at a certain number of words, and when I've finished working with my editor, the novel is longer than when I submitted it. I need my editor to help me open up the story.
emotion emotions interested
I've always been interested in the emotion of longing,
age decided published
At the age of twenty, having published nothing and having had little guidance in my reading, I decided that I wanted to write.
That's the novelist's job: to peel back the layers and look underneath.
books sports though
Though I loved books as a young boy, I loved sports even more. I wanted to be a quarterback in the CFL.
behind depths drives fascinates novel stuff
What fascinates me as a writer is the stuff underneath, To me, what drives a novel is the curiosity behind the character and the depths that you want to find in that character.
good last
You are only as good as your last book, and so there has to be a book.
church civil couples perform unions
We at this church will not perform the civil unions of same-sex couples because it would be un-Biblical to do so.