Ethan Canin Quotes

It's such a risk to write a novel that it's easy to become conservative - you're spending what would be, for me, a couple of years of my life on a single idea. Which is maybe one of the reasons I write stories - if it doesn't work, you've only lost a month.

Ethan Canin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeWorkMeMy LifeEasyYou

God is still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate, to me, is outrageous.

Jim Inhofe

ChangeGodPeopleMeThinkDoing

I'm an older woman who's not going to have a shiny pop song ever again, so that gives me license to do whatever the hell I want.

Jill Sobule

WomanMeSongHellWantWhatever

I do not support the third party movement anymore. I now advocate the abolishment of all political parties. We've allowed the parties to take over the government.

Jesse Ventura

GovernmentSupportPoliticalParty

I try to not go, 'I'm writing a pop song.' Music is inherently genre-bending.

Andra Day

MusicWritingSongGoTryPop

I'm much more comfortable speaking through my characters' voices than my own.

Amy Adams

ComfortableMy OwnMoreThroughOwn

Gospel was the root of everything in my house, so there's a touch of that in everything that I do. If soul counts as a genre, I would also say that's the common thread throughout everything I do. There's rock and soul influence, too. The pop element comes at the very end and making the song catchy so people will remember it.

Tori Kelly

SoulPeopleInfluenceSongEndRock

To Mr. Seward: It is my desire that, in case Maximillian will surrender, he be sent here a prisoner of war, but that in the event of his continuing the war, or refusing to surrender, then he be shot.

Joshua A. Norton

WarSurrenderDesireWillHereHe

Man, in spite of his fatal degradation, bears always the evident marks of his divine origin, in that every universal belief is always more or less true.

Joseph de Maistre

ManTrueBeliefMoreAlwaysDivine

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.

Douglas Haig

StruggleLongNumbersMoralTurn

I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone.

Bobby Darin

I AmBackTurtleNowSayEverything

Wrestling has done a lot for my life.

Bobby Lashley

LifeMy LifeDoneWrestlingLot

I want to be able to give a positive image for people to look up to.

Ashleigh Murray

PositivePeopleLookWantImageUp

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