Build it all up, and it all falls down. It all burns down…

Being a mixed-blood person of Ojibway and European ancestry, I always found that I only heard one side of the story - that was…

— 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.

— Joseph Boyden

I'm a writer. I should be allowed to speak about my writing at times. And I'm really excited to speak about that. There's nothing…

— Joseph Boyden

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

— Joseph Boyden

There’s something sexy in cooking for a man who likes my food. Am I growing up?

— Joseph Boyden

When I die, nieces, I want to be cremated, my ashes taken up in a bush plane and sprinkled onto the people in town…

— Joseph Boyden

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…

— Joseph Boyden

America seems to celebrate its more violent past, but Canada doesn't like to recognize those things. The willingness to accept the existence of violence…

— Joseph Boyden

“I thought of my mother late that night, after leaving Dorothy, as I followed the moon's path back home across the Moose River. My…

— Joseph Boyden

From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge.

— Joseph Boyden

I'm intrigued by the classic Greek tragedies, as well as by the idea of the Greek chorus.

— Joseph Boyden

“Lots of times growing up, I’d just try to do something myself because I believed that being a boy, and being Indian, I should…

— Joseph Boyden

The beliefs of Native people are no less powerful or important just because they focus on a different "form of magic."

— Joseph Boyden

During World War I the Canadians were the shock troops. In many historical cases, Canadians have been very proficient at killing, and doing what…

— Joseph Boyden

Canada and America are very, very different. It's true that we share a language and many customs. But Americans have a very different view…

— Joseph Boyden