Chris Bohjalian quotes

Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory. (Chris Bohjalian)

But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle?

Chris Bohjalian

We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.

Chris Bohjalian

As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.

Chris Bohjalian

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

Chris Bohjalian

When it seems you have nothing at all to live for, death is not especially frightening.

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I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better....

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But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.

Chris Bohjalian

The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.

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What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has the emotional resonance of memoir.

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When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend. (Chris Bohjalian)

I'm half-Armenian. Even though my grandparents did not discuss the genocide, and my father - like many sons and daughters of immigrants - wanted to be as 'American' as possible, I was always aware of it. How could I not be?

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Some are just businessmen.

Chris Bohjalian

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

Chris Bohjalian

Occupation: American Novelist
Born: August 12, 1962
Quotes count: 14

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