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Chris Bohjalian
Chris Bohjalian
American Novelist
Born: Aug 12, 1962
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Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has the emotional resonance of memoir. Chris Bohjalian
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My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every day I do try to write 800-1,200 words. I don't always achieve it, and the reality is that a lot of the words I write will end up on the cutting-room floor. Chris Bohjalian
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On a regular basis if you're trying to produce something, I think you should work every day and set achievable goals. Chris Bohjalian
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When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend. Chris Bohjalian
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I do have hobbies - I garden and bike, for example - but there's nothing in the world that gives me even a fraction of the pleasure that I derive from hanging around with my wife and daughter. Chris Bohjalian
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I need complete silence when I write. Chris Bohjalian
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I loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one. Chris Bohjalian
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I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain. Chris Bohjalian
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On the one hand, I'm this guy who grew up in the suburbs of New York City to very conservative parents, and the other side of me is fascinated by the peripheries of our culture, maybe because that's where our culture is most in transition and where there's likely to be conflict. Chris Bohjalian
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