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Cathy Marie Buchanan [1963-0] Canadian

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Cathy Marie Buchanan is a Toronto-based writer. The Day the Falls Stood Still, her debut novel, was published in North America in 2009 and Italy and the UK in 2010. It immediately became a New York Times bestseller.

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Growing up in Niagara Falls, Ontario, I took classes as a young girl and became very serious about ballet, and also performed with a local company, although it wasn't a professional company.		101
A tour of the Mexico City of Diego Rivera and Frieda Kahlo led by Barbara Kingsolver would be nice. And I certainly wouldn't turn down a tour of Johannes Vermeer's Delft led by Tracey Chevalier.		102
I really became convinced I wanted to tell the story of the real-life model for the Degas sculpture 'Little Dancer Aged 14,' which was unveiled in 1881, the Belle Epoque.		103
I'm very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book clubs all over the world.		104
I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way I know how to write.		105
Edgar Degas's famous sculpture, 'Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,' served as my muse for 'The Painted Girls.' I came upon a television documentary on the work, and as someone who held the sculpture in high esteem and who largely considered ballet to be the high-minded pursuit of privileged young girls, I was struck by what I would learn.	Famous	106
It breaks my heart that we are always being nudged toward the most recently published books, when so many worthy books have gone unexplored.		107
I don't wait for inspiration. I get up and write every day.		108
I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good.		109
I keep writing because it is deeply pleasurable to me.		110

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