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A writer creates, an editor crafts. And in the world of great literature, one cannot exist without the other.

— Cherie Dimaline with Editors Canada (2017)

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"Sometimes you risk everything for a life worth living, even if you're not the one that'll be alive to see it." (p152)

The Marrow Thieves (2017)

She’d collected the dreams like bright beads on a string of nights that wound around her each day, every day until this one. (p173)

The Marrow Thieves (2017)

We need better educated and positioned allies, and literature is one way to make this happen.

with Publishing Perspectives (2017)

I write what I understand and what fascinates and comforts me from within a place of knowing.

with Publishing Perspectives (2017)

"...When we heal our land, we are healed also." (p193)

The Marrow Thieves (2017)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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