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

- Chris Bohjalian
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I answer two or three letters a day. I'm just not the he-has-a-secretary kind of guy.

There is a lot of my childhood in 'The Sandcastle Girls.'

Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write.

People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend or family member to a novel I believe they'll cherish but might not otherwise have thought to pick up and read.

My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every day I do try to write 800-1,200 words. I don't always achieve it, and the reality is that a lot of the words I write will end up on the cutting-room floor.

I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain.

On the one hand, I'm this guy who grew up in the suburbs of New York City to very conservative parents, and the other side of me is fascinated by the peripheries of our culture, maybe because that's where our culture is most in transition and where there's likely to be conflict.

If you look at my personal library, you will notice that it ranges from Henry James to Steig Larsson, from Margaret Atwood to Max Hastings. There's Jane Austen and Tom Perrotta and volumes of letters from Civil War privates. It's pretty eclectic.

I need complete silence when I write.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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