17 Miriam Toews Quotes for You to Enjoy

Miriam Toews

Canadian Writer

Born: 1964

Every Life Me People Writing You

Related authors: Alice Munro Charles de Lint Gavin McInnes Kelley Armstrong Laurence J. Peter Nathan Fielder Robert J. Sawyer Stephanie Savage

The whole notion of pain, and how every individual experiences pain, is up for debate. We don't know how another person experiences pain - physical pain or psychic pain. Some of these clinics where assisted suicide or euthanasia is practiced, they call it 'weariness of life.' Miriam Toews

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There are so many things in my life that would be completely not on within the conservative church. And yet I think of myself as a reasonably decent human being. With all sorts of flaws, you know, but still reasonably decent. If I did believe in Heaven and Hell, I would really, honestly, believe I was going to go to Heaven. Miriam Toews

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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

You Will Enormous Others Back Resources Push Pushed Person Going Often Depressed Who Keep Keep Going Away Amount Inner

There are people who are just suicidal, regardless. They are built to self-destruct. It seems, in my family, like a virus that's resistant to any kind of help or care or medication. Miriam Toews

Family People Care Virus Kind Seems Like Built Any Just Regardless Help Who Medication Resistant Suicidal

In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences. Miriam Toews

Life Writing Free My Life Raw Raw Material Material Experiences Fiction Use

Writing helps me to create order out of chaos and make sense of things. It helps me to understand what I've experienced, what I've felt and seen, so it becomes a little easier to handle. On the other hand, I don't want it to be just a cathartic experience, an outpouring of grief or whatever it is. Miriam Toews

Me Grief Experience Writing Seen Whatever Sense Other Chaos Easier Out Outpouring Cathartic Make Felt Understand Becomes Hand Handle Just Experienced Order Want Little Create Helps Things

A writer is always, always searching, even against her will, against all her better instincts, for the thread of a story. Everything is fodder. Everything is fuel. You can feel it coming on like the tingling of a sore throat. The brain never stops struggling to reshape every experience and feeling into a coherent narrative. Miriam Toews

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I have a problem with beginnings... and endings... and middles. But I don't know what else I would do. I find it very, very difficult to write. It takes everything; it's physically and mentally and emotionally exhausting for me. And my neighbours. And my dog. Miriam Toews

Me Dog Problem Difficult Else Everything Neighbours Would Find Physically Mentally Write Emotionally Takes Know Exhausting Very Beginnings Endings

There was no freer soul in the world than me at age nine. Miriam Toews

Me Soul Age World Nine Freer Than

A lot of times, people think that it doesn't make sense for people to be depressed when they have everything, a loving husband, a successful career, fame and fortune. I wanted to make this point that profound despair can strike anybody. Miriam Toews

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

Time Book Settings Characters Only Featured Sixth Third

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

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

Spent Small Town Prairie Years Canadian Middle

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

Writing Advice Every About Leave Blood Page Your Ignore

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