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Kevin Patterson
Canadian
Writer
Born:
Dec 27
,
1964
Both
People
Rebellion
Time
Which
World
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Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.
Kevin Patterson
Solitude
Lost
Awareness
Otherwise
Pleasures
Small
Sharpens
The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion.
Kevin Patterson
World
Rebellion
Simple
Achieve
Something
Than
Maverick
Wants
Loves
Whole
Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads.
Kevin Patterson
You
Courage
People
Fear
Cowardice
Easier
Enter
Through
Bottom
Heads
Because
Get
Where
Fiction
Interested
I work on quiet call nights in the hospital, on airplanes and on my sailboat when I have a bit of time - I cram it into wherever it will fit.
Kevin Patterson
Work
Time
Will
Nights
Bit
Airplane
Hospital
Call
Sailboat
Fit
Quiet
Cram
Wherever
I've worked in the Inuit hamlets of the west coast of Hudson Bay since 1994. Over that time I've been very moved by both the pace of social change there - the loss of traditional ways of seeing the world, the affinity for and comfort with the land - and by the social disarray that change of this pace produces.
Kevin Patterson
Time
Change
World
Ways
Bay
Seeing
Both
Over
Since
Comfort
Traditional
Been
West
Loss
West Coast
Hudson
Affinity
Very
Moved
Pace
Social
Social Change
Land
Worked
Produces
Coast
Medicine and writing are natural companions.
Kevin Patterson
Natural
Writing
Medicine
Companions
Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my eyes to the power of fiction when I was in my 20s.
Kevin Patterson
Me
Eyes
Power
Mark
Lawrence
Both
Write
Opened
Fiction
Novels
Whom
Now
Fat
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