45 Quotes by David Bergen

Failure is essential. Trial and error is necessary.

You are only as good as your last book, and so there has to be a book.

Though I loved books as a young boy, I loved sports even more. I wanted to be a quarterback in the CFL.

What fascinates me as a writer is the stuff underneath, To me, what drives a novel is the curiosity behind the character and the depths that you want to find in that character.

Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.

At the age of twenty, having published nothing and having had little guidance in my reading, I decided that I wanted to write.

An editor is an accomplice, looking in from the outside. That objective view is essential. We don't write in a vacuum, and we don't publish in a vacuum.

Every year, the Giller jury is different. You write the best book you can and throw it out there.

The story wrote quickly. I called it 'Where You're From,' and I sent it out, as I had numerous other stories over the years. Except this time I got a letter back saying that it would be published. Someone out there had liked the story. I was thirty-one years old.