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> [I need complete silence when I write.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-bohjalian/i-need-complete-silence-when-i-write/)

[Chris Bohjalian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-bohjalian/)

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## More by Chris Bohjalian

> [I think the most important lesson isn't necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand yourself and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-bohjalian/i-think-the-most-important-lesson-isn-t-necessarily-to-try-and-write/)

[Chris Bohjalian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-bohjalian/)

> [The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-bohjalian/the-honest-answer-is-more-complex-on-some-level-i-was-sent-or/)

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> [“A term came to her that they used on occasion at the shelter: the double bind...They used the expression in much the same way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-bohjalian/a-term-came-to-her-that-they-used-on-occasion-at-the-shelter-the/)

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> [“But history does matter. There are lines connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Serbs and the Rwandans. They are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-bohjalian/but-history-does-matter-there-are-lines-connecting-the-armenians-and/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-bohjalian/what-is-most-important-to-me-is-that-my-narrator-s-voice-is/)

[Chris Bohjalian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-bohjalian/)

> [He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-bohjalian/he-defined-himself-almost-wholly-in-the-negative-it-was-not-who-he/)

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> [“A moment later, all of the men at the party, stupefied by the way the hooker had gone banshee,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-bohjalian/a-moment-later-all-of-the-men-at-the-party-stupefied-by-the-way-the/)

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> [“Those who participate in a genocide as well as those who merely look away rarely volunteer much in the way of anecdote or observation.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-bohjalian/those-who-participate-in-a-genocide-as-well-as-those-who-merely-look/)

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> [“The Beatrice that obsessed Dante was a Florentine named Bice di Folco Portinari. Envision this moment (and, in all fairness, I am envisioning it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-bohjalian/the-beatrice-that-obsessed-dante-was-a-florentine-named-bice-di-folco/)

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> [“Boys look at us like we look at horses: color, height, eyes. tail. They can't help but have preferences.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-bohjalian/boys-look-at-us-like-we-look-at-horses-color-height-eyes-tail-they/)

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> [He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-bohjalian/he-recalls-what-that-first-german-soldier-said-to-his-major-no-god/)

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> [“But she insists the family hadn’t a choice. Not true. We always have choices. Isn’t that what Dante teaches us? I really have become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-bohjalian/but-she-insists-the-family-hadn-t-a-choice-not-true-we-always-have/)

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> [“I love it when the snowflakes are flying like butterflies.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-bohjalian/i-love-it-when-the-snowflakes-are-flying-like-butterflies/)

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> [Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-bohjalian/why-a-ghost-story-well-i-love-them-they-re-fun-to-read-and-yes-fun-to/)

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> [The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-bohjalian/the-reality-is-that-most-of-north-america-knows-next-to-nothing-of/)

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