American - Author | July 19, 1960 -
Fame is a problem of perspective.
Ethan Canin
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I was never writing for commercial success. It's nice that it has come, but it is not important.
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In medical school, you're taught to write in this convoluted, Latinate way. I knew the vocabulary as well as anyone, but I would write kidney instead of nephric. I insisted on using English.
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I don't have a pen name, so I'm thinking of getting a doctor's name. What would you call that, a stethoscope name?
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I like certain people's work better than my own.
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Books were king, but now movies are king, and books are sort of ignored. So now there's no sense of a welcoming community where you live.
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What's more interesting than the arc of lives?
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'How does your life turn out?' That's the ultimate novelistic question to me.
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I don't think success makes one confident. I think it has more to do with character than circumstance.
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If you try to write a novel in L.A., you're a chump; everyone is speeding by, and you're driving a rickshaw.
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No matter what writers say, most stories are about ourselves. The facts might change a little, but not much.
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I like writing about the evil lurking in apparently good people.
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