If I didn't write sex scenes, all my characters would head to the kitchen and make cups of tea. — Michael Winter Head Copy Share Image
Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins. — Michael Winter Brevity Copy Share Image
I've grown up, luckily, with only a distant relationship to war and soldiering. — Michael Winter Distant Copy Share Image
If you look at footage of the Newfoundland Regiment, you see they are at rest and giddy and being silly with one… — Michael Winter Being Copy Share Image
I've never in my life categorized a year of my life as good or bad. I just think I'm living a good… — Michael Winter Bad Copy Share Image
The truth is, everybody falls into an incinerator of some measure or other. Not literally one. The question is what are you… — Michael Winter Bad Copy Share Image
How does the past ambush us? How can we be accurate about what happened, how can we be true to it? And… — Michael Winter History Copy Share Image
To me, the idea that any kind of disaster helps create a nation seems a ridiculous one. There was no family in… — Michael Winter Create Copy Share Image
If you are having trouble with a story, it may not be an issue with the quality of the writing - there… — Michael Winter Issue Copy Share Image
I approached writing a story for the CBC Literary Awards as a mercenary venture - $5,000 for one story, not bad. Now,… — Michael Winter Bad Copy Share Image
The greatness of being an artist is the kind of ridiculous guffaw you can have at one's own misery. 'That was miserable!… — Michael Winter Art Copy Share Image
The fantastic thing about the memorial to the Newfoundland Regiment at Beaumont-Hamel is that it's one of the rare examples where they've… — Michael Winter British Copy Share Image
When you join the army, you are asked to lay down your life for your country. That is a tremendous oath to… — Michael Winter Alive Copy Share Image
I didn't like filtering the story through me, saying, 'Reader, you'll be safe with me. While it gets a little dangerous, it'll… — Michael Winter Dangerous Copy Share Image
We found letters at the house we bought from a sailor to his wife who lived in the house. He went down… — Michael Winter Fish Copy Share Image
Hockey wasn't invented but discovered. The game, and the large organizing idea behind Stephen Smith's deeply personal 'Puckstruck,' sleeps in ponds and… — Michael Winter Find Copy Share Image
I plan to live to be 98, so I'll be the guy at Dundas and Yonge flogging a box of mouldy novels. — Michael Winter Box Copy Share Image
“But all sudden things come from a deep study of conversion -- they are sudden only on the surface.” — Michael Winter Communication Copy Share Image
Wild and urban at the same time - that's the type of woman I'm with. — Michael Winter Same Copy Share Image
You can't go wrong with major life and death stories when it comes to a competition, so I thought I'd have a… — Michael Winter Competition Copy Share Image
There are scenes from books I'm happy with. I tend to think my books are all broken. But then my favourite reads… — Michael Winter Always Copy Share Image
Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined… — Michael Winter Book Copy Share Image
'Into the Blizzard' follows the author as he traces the footsteps of the Newfoundland Regiment during the First World War: where they… — Michael Winter Battle Copy Share Image
Before Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949, there was the same sort of talk of young men sacrificing their lives so that a… — Michael Winter Canada Copy Share Image
Beaumont-Hamel sits within a thousand acres of French agriculture. The trenches are under this blanket of grass. In the 1920s, a park… — Michael Winter Agriculture Copy Share Image
A few years ago, I was trying to buy a piece of land next to a house I had in Newfoundland. I… — Michael Winter Family Copy Share Image
