![]() And I couldn't do it quickly, which would be the only way. I would have to take it seriously if I agreed to do it, and then I and the book would get all serious and I'd get fired. Kenneth Oppel asks, "Would you ghostwrite a trashy book if you were offered enough?" I think some people are afraid of books that might be too "literary," so that's perhaps what they're trying to find out. I have certainly been asked what kind of books I write, which is perhaps a more polite variation of the same question. Linwood Barclay asks, "What keeps you from physically harming people who ask, "Would you have written anything I might have read?"" I only wish to write the next one that is in my head, although there are many, many books I admire.ģ. Robert Currie asks, "What book by someone else do you wish you had written, and why?" I often finish what was obviously a good book and ask myself, Why didn't I enjoy that more? 2. That makes us good readers in one sense, but also bad, because sometimes we forget to sit back and enjoy the ride. I think we might be more curious about how someone else tells a story or uses language, so we read in layers. Are writers better readers, or worse?"īoth. ![]() ![]() Kim Thúy asks, "Doctors are often the worst patients. In Dianne Warren's latest novel Liberty Street, a middle-aged woman blurts out a decades-old secret and detonates the identity she spent most of her adult life constructing.īelow, Dianne Warren answers eight questions submitted by eight of her fellow writers in the CBC Books Magic 8 Q&A.ġ. ![]()
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