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Ethan Canin Quotes

If you try to write a novel in L.A., you're a chump; everyone is speeding by, and you're driving a rickshaw.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Driving You Try Write Everyone

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

Good Faith Respect Control Gun You

We all are so serious when we are younger.

Serious Younger

As a rule, wearing a bigger pair of jeans looks better than squishing yourself into a pair of jeans that used to fit before you gave up smoking.

Yourself Better Smoking You Looks

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

Small Voice Color Guitar Orchestra

Play is the work of childhood.

Work Childhood Play

People talk to me about celebrities all the time and which ones do I admire, and it's so hard because you can't tell who's doing it for themselves and who hired a stylist.

Michael Bastian

Time People Me Doing You Talk

Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction.

Alphonsus Liguori

Health Gift Stronger Ability Thanks

I've helped create and save thousands of American jobs.

American Create Save Jobs Helped

In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market.

Days Big Interest Market Labels Any

I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill.

Childhood Gun Loved Back Toys Gone

When I was 16, at night I went to my high school and chucked rocks at the billboard sign and broke the light bulbs. That was fun.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

Light School Fun Night High School

And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters.

Writing Book Story End Conversation

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