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Ethan Canin Quotes

American - Author | July 19, 1960 -

Medicine is a supremely useful profession. Fiction writing is not.

Writing Medicine Fiction Useful

I don't want to be movie-star famous. I want to move people with my writing.

People Writing Famous Want Move

It's safe to say that all poets are manic-depressives, but fiction writers are on that scale, too.

Say Safe Fiction Poets Scale Too

I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.

Power Ruthless Generous Those

If you're concentrating so damn hard on a piece of mathematics or a musical - a piece of music or a piece of art, the restraint that holds the rest of - the rest of the world back off and vanishes in the rest of your life.

Life Music Art Mathematics World

When I went for my medical school interview, I had an old paperback of 'Henderson the Rain King' in the pocket of my coat. I was wearing the best clothes I had - a pair of cords and a sport coat - but when I got to the office, all the other interviewees were lined up in their black suits.

Rain Best Medical School King Suits

I think Bellow's the greatest American writer of his century, personally. When I read him, I'm in awe.

Think American Him Awe Greatest

I think that's what poets try to do: They try to sidestep neurology and go straight to meaning.

Think Meaning Go Try Straight Poets

It's the writer's job to disarm the reader of his logic, to just make the reader feel.

Job Feel Logic Make Just Writer

I think one of the battles for fiction writers is how much to invent or exaggerate.

Think Battles Fiction I Think Much

Politicians are already exaggerated. They're bigger than life in every way - their appetites, their ambitions, their personalities, their failings, their magnetism. In a sense, they're made for fiction.

Life Way Politicians Fiction Bigger

I think one of the things that is essential for happiness in life, or at least for non-sadness, is producing something. I guess that's why I spend so much time and agony writing books. But working on carpentry is sort of like all the pleasure with none of the agony.

Life Happiness Time Writing Think

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