Miriam Toews : (3)

" With my father and sister being very depressed for most of their lives, it was incumbent on me to try to make them laugh, in this ridiculous way. They were the wittiest people I knew, but to get a smile from them was like winning the lottery. " - Miriam Toews

" 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

" 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