American - Author | July 19, 1960 -
Families tend to artificially divide the world, imbuing one member with all the attributes and another with all the faults. But it's never that way.
Ethan Canin
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When I write, I can become this ecstatic, crazy fellow, hearing the voices and just loosening up and letting them grow.
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A novel, at least for me, cannot be visualized at one time.
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When the narrator says, 'This is a story without surprises,' most of the time, this is not what happens.
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People are surprised when Hollywood characters act the way a real person would.
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When you're in medicine - especially when you're a resident in a public hospital - you feel like you're doing your part. But not when you're a writer.
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Writers of literature make very little money.
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In the winter, I read next to a wood-burning stove. In the summer, we have a place up in Michigan where I like to read in a hammock. It's almost entirely hidden by cedar trees and right up by the water. You can climb in there and see nothing but water and be seen by nobody. It's perfect.
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I think even great writers only write two books that you might like. When I think of my touchstone writers like Saul Bellow, I think of 'Henderson the Rain King.' With Don DeLillo, I think of 'Libra.'
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Point of view gets me. If I can feel like a character rather than a reader, I'll read that book.
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I can only remember two books from college that moved me: E.M. Forster's 'Howards End' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby.'
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I like to write about the moment of light in the hour of darkness.
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