Ethan Canin Quotes

I like certain people's work better than my own.

Ethan Canin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 19, 1960

Topics

WorkPeopleBetterMy OwnOwnLike

I tried the second season of 'American Horror Story,' and it scared me horribly. I guess I prefer my own imagination to a realized visual.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

ImaginationMeStoryAmericanMy Own

I think that often in the United States we're very blind to the ways that history lives in the present.

Jesmyn Ward

HistoryThinkBlindPresentUnited

My parents were more surprised that I wanted to go away for school than anything. They didn't really understand the benefits.

Jennine Capó Crucet

SchoolParentsGoUnderstandMore

As I've matured as a songwriter, I realize that if it's out there, it's mine.

John Mellencamp

RealizeOutMineSongwriterMatured

People who think it doesn't matter who owns our auto industry are flat wrong.

Robert Lutz

PeopleThinkWrongMatterIndustry

The history of Montana has been of the government giving land grants to people that could not possibly turn it into decent farms. And that's destroying their lives. So they don't see the government as something that's out there to help them.

Angus Deaton

HistoryGovernmentPeopleHelpLand

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

John Steinbeck

JourneyStruggleTravelFindPerson

It's definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white.

Shirley Manson

MeMakeupBlackSeeingWhiteWant

Am I really an author if I just put pictures in a book?

Mike McCready

BookPicturesJustReallyAmPut

I've always loved Houdini, not just because of what he did, but also because of what he stood for. He was a self-made man in a time when the idea of celebrity was still new, and he used his celebrity for good.

Michael Redhill

GoodTimeManLovedJust Because

I had never said, 'dad, I love you.'

Michael Reagan

LoveI Love YouYouSaidNeverHad

Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles for which they struggled confided to your care, allow them to be violated in your hands?

Joseph Howe

MenCareLanguageHandsYouBlood

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