I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state’s third highest mountain. Chris Bohjalian Read Quote
I think the most important lesson isn’t necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand yourself and write one specific kind of book, but to write the kind of books you love to read. Chris Bohjalian Read Quote
On a regular basis if you’re trying to produce something, I think you should work every day and set achievable goals. Chris Bohjalian Read Quote
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 Read Quote
If you are stymied as a writer, if it’s just not coming together, then take the pressure off and don’t feel that you need to write 1,000 words today; just write one really good sentence. Chris Bohjalian Read Quote
My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the hospital. Chris Bohjalian Read Quote
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 Read Quote
If you look at my personal library, you will notice that it ranges from Henry James to Steig Larsson, from Margaret Atwood to Max Hastings. There’s Jane Austen and Tom Perrotta and volumes of letters from Civil War privates. It’s pretty eclectic. Chris Bohjalian Read Quote
The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th century’s first genocide – the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War. Chris Bohjalian Read Quote
