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Ethan Canin Quotes

Fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition, small disappointed hope.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Hope Ambition Small Fiction Failed

Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.

Robert H. Schuller

Today Tomorrow Obstacles Same Size

I love Weleda Skin Food and Avene's Moisture Mask, especially if I've been travelling. Weleda also makes great deodorants and body oils - my mum introduced me to them long ago.

Love Great Food Me Mask Body

I don't know what I would have done had I not found the Internet. I found a community of people who I really liked and who I felt got me.

Community People Me Internet Know

I don't think this business encourages you to be present. This is a business that's always pushing you to think about your next thing.

Business Think Present You Always

What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.

Me Guitar Now Boy Reason Fault

As soon as I know it's about technological things or spies, I lose interest. I want to know what goes on in people's minds.

People Lose Know Want Minds Things

I've often wondered if the trade-off for growing up in the relative newness and freshness of the West Coast was befuddlement when it comes to historical preservation. We don't have many old things, and we don't really know what to do with the few that are around when our default response is to compost or field burn.

Growing Up Growing Know Burn Old Up

I think that there's a fine line between comedy and drama. I think that ultimately, the less winking that's going on when you're doing comedy - and this is just my own thing, and maybe it's why I've never been hired in comedy except by Bill Lawrence - but I think that the less winking you do with comedy, the better off you are.

Think Better Comedy Doing You Drama

It's silly to have a prototype, because one inevitably falls for someone unexpected. My only criterion is she shouldn't just look nice; she must have a personality, too.

Personality Someone Unexpected Look

My parents thought I was crazy. When I graduated, you didn't hear of basketball players going to Japan. Everyone went to Europe somewhere.

Parents Crazy Basketball Thought You

I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.

Nature Love Live People Think Know

So far, I've never missed a deadline for a term paper, a review, a manuscript. I perform the mumbo-jumbo of voting with belief in my heart, I've not yet won even a jaywalking ticket, and unlike my father, whom I fault in this respect, I refrain from opting out of jury duty; instead, they mostly kick me out.

William T. Vollmann

Father Heart Respect Me Voting Duty

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