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Ethan Canin Quotes

Doubt is the enemy of mania. It's trying to get aloft strung with weights. The moment I like writing is three sentences in, when somehow those weights drop away, and you can invent. I cannot tell you the dread I have.

Ethan Canin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Moment Writing Doubt Trying You Get

I don't have huge bank accounts. I'd love one. But it wouldn't change much. I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.

John Lydon

Love Change Car Nonsense Reason

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Over Cost Soviet Greater Much Lives

I would think that to people like my father, and the people of his generation, Popeye is like a male priapist. So if you think in ancient terms, he would have a harem, a symbol of male energy.

Jeff Koons

Father People Energy Think You Like

Clean air is a basic right. The responsibility to ensure that falls to Congress and the president.

Tom Carper

Responsibility Congress Clean Right

Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of all ages. When people are overweight or obese, they have more health problems and more serious health problems, in addition to higher health care costs.

Mike Rounds

Health People Problems Care Serious

My readers often tell me that what they admire about my books is my ability to write from so many points of view. My challenge to myself is whether I'll ever be able to write a novel just from one point of view. It seems impossible.

Julia Glass

Myself Challenge Me Impossible View

I've never been a fan of loans between relatives or friends. They can divide relationships.

Jean Chatzky

Friends Relationships Never Relatives

Reagan is the Republican FDR, an exemplar of presidential greatness.

Jon Meacham

Greatness Republican FDR Presidential

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

Don DeLillo

Power People Violence Open Powerless

I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation.

Dick Van Dyke

Me Generation Little Get Just Kids

I love being outdoors and being with animals, and when you're on a horse, you have to leave your anxieties and worries behind in the barn. It's very therapeutic.

Deborah Harkness

Love Outdoors Horse You Animals

The alpine environment is very delicate. I've been able to see change in the mountains in the 20 years that I've been climbing full-time. Glaciers have receded. The tree-line is changing. That's very rapid to see nature changing in a 20-year period.

Conrad Anker

Nature Change Mountains Environment