Quotes from Joseph Boyden

I believe truly that Canada is a living history and we're going through some of the most important time in this country's short 150 years.

People will say that Canada, unlike America, was not birthed from violence. But I want to say, "What are you talking about?" It's just not true.

Sometimes, it's not getting what we want that offers us the most important Lessons

As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work.

There's the concept that dreams are as important - if not more important - than reality. The attention that one pays to those things in the shadows is very much a part of the Indian experience.

I'm fascinated by the magic realism used by many writers. I think it goes hand-in-hand with the Indian experience. It's a very different way of viewing the world.