Quotes by Michael Winter - Page 1

Wild and urban at the same time - that's the type of woman I'm with.
Michael Winter /
Urban
Wild
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I've grown up, luckily, with only a distant relationship to war and soldiering.
Michael Winter /
Distant
Grown
Luckily
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Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.
Michael Winter /
Arbitrary
Brevity
Good Writing
Problem
Wins
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If I didn't write sex scenes, all my characters would head to the kitchen and make cups of tea.
Michael Winter /
Cups
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I've never in my life categorized a year of my life as good or bad. I just think I'm living a good life, warts and all.
Michael Winter /
Good Life
Warts
Life Good Good Life
Life Good My Life
Categorized
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You can't go wrong with major life and death stories when it comes to a competition, so I thought I'd have a go at writing one.
Michael Winter /
Competition
Life And Death
Life Death Life And Death
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If you are having trouble with a story, it may not be an issue with the quality of the writing - there may just be too much of it.
Michael Winter /
Just Be
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The greatness of being an artist is the kind of ridiculous guffaw you can have at one's own misery. 'That was miserable! Now how can I write about it?'
Michael Winter /
Greatness
Miserable
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If you look at footage of the Newfoundland Regiment, you see they are at rest and giddy and being silly with one another. Silliness is the antidote to trench warfare.
Michael Winter /
Antidote
Being Silly
Giddy
Silliness
Warfare
Footage
Regiment
Trench
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To me, the idea that any kind of disaster helps create a nation seems a ridiculous one. There was no family in the house on the land next to me, and there might have been.
Michael Winter /
Disaster
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Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined her stories, figured out how they worked.
Michael Winter /
Creative Writing
Larry
Marine
Nearly
Discussed
Examined
Figured
Linda
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There are scenes from books I'm happy with. I tend to think my books are all broken. But then my favourite reads are almost always books that don't, in the end, pull off what they set out to do.
Michael Winter /
Broken
Favourite
In The End
Pull
Reads
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The truth is, everybody falls into an incinerator of some measure or other. Not literally one. The question is what are you going to do with those bad times? Are you just going to let them gnaw at you?
Michael Winter /
Bad Times
Truth Is
Gnaw
Measure
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How does the past ambush us? How can we be accurate about what happened, how can we be true to it? And can war be declared over? And can we ever evolve from the notion of war, of nations, of us versus them?
Michael Winter /
Accurate
Evolve
Nations
Notion
Versus
Be True
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Before Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949, there was the same sort of talk of young men sacrificing their lives so that a country might grow - that somehow it had been a great nation-building success for Newfoundland.
Michael Winter /
Canada
Nation Building
Joined
Sacrificing
Young Men
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I approached writing a story for the CBC Literary Awards as a mercenary venture - $5,000 for one story, not bad. Now, how do you win it? Jurors are wading through skyscrapers of paper, looking for one story that stands out.
Michael Winter /
Awards
Mercenary
Venture
Literary
Skyscrapers
Stands
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'Into the Blizzard' follows the author as he traces the footsteps of the Newfoundland Regiment during the First World War: where they trained in Scotland, where they fought in Gallipoli and where they died at the Battle of the Somme in France.
Michael Winter /
Battle
Blizzard
First World War
Footsteps
Scotland
War World Battle
Author
First World
Follows
Fought
Regiment
Traces
World War
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The fantastic thing about the memorial to the Newfoundland Regiment at Beaumont-Hamel is that it's one of the rare examples where they've preserved a battlefield more or less as it was. You can see all the trenches, where the British were, where the Germans lined up.
Michael Winter /
British
Memorial
Trenches
Battlefield
Rare
Examples
Germans
Lined
More Or Less
Preserved
Regiment
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I didn't like filtering the story through me, saying, 'Reader, you'll be safe with me. While it gets a little dangerous, it'll be okay because, after all, you're with me, because I'm a warm convivial voice. But let's be entertained by this horrible stuff.' I didn't like that.
Michael Winter /
Horrible
Okay
Reader
Warm
Entertained
Filtering
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Beaumont-Hamel sits within a thousand acres of French agriculture. The trenches are under this blanket of grass. In the 1920s, a park was established here and trees from Newfoundland imported to encircle the battlefield so you get the feeling of being within a copse of woods.
Michael Winter /
Acres
Blanket
Grass
Thousand
Woods
Established
Battlefield
Encircle
Imported
Park
Trees
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When you join the army, you are asked to lay down your life for your country. That is a tremendous oath to take. In return, a good country should offer that soldier every possible means it can to allow that soldier to stay alive and, upon return, healthy - both mentally and physically.
Michael Winter /
Alive
Army
Healthy
Oath
Return
Soldier
Life Good Your
Physically
Mentally
Allow
Asked
Tremendous
Possible
Stay
Join
Lay
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Hockey wasn't invented but discovered. The game, and the large organizing idea behind Stephen Smith's deeply personal 'Puckstruck,' sleeps in ponds and in the crooked limbs of trees overhead; we merely pluck a stick from the sky and skate over the frozen world to find ourselves and each other.
Michael Winter /
Crooked
Frozen
Hockey
Limbs
Overhead
Pluck
Sky
Discovered
Organizing
Merely
Skate
Sleeps
Smith
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We found letters at the house we bought from a sailor to his wife who lived in the house. He went down to the Caribbean on this trader vessel, bringing down salted fish. There would be handwritten letters, but also telegrams, saying which ports he was in. And he'd be gone for three months. That was just the way it is.
Michael Winter /
Caribbean
House
Letters
Months
Sailor
Three
Vessel
Bought
Fish
Bringing
Ports
Saying
Telegram
Trader
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A few years ago, I was trying to buy a piece of land next to a house I had in Newfoundland. I discovered that the plot had been owned by a family, and the son had gone off to World War I and been killed. It began to interest me: What would have happened on that land if the son had lived, had brought up his own family there?
Michael Winter /
Plot
World War I
War Family World
Owned
World War
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