Ethan Canin Quotes

A ten- or twelve-page story seems too easy, which is a funny thing to say considering that writing a decent short story is devastatingly difficult. Yet it still seems easier than a novel. You can turn a short story on a single good line - ten pages of decent writing and one good moment.

Ethan Canin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FunnyGoodMomentWritingStoryYou

When cellphones came out, my girlfriend refused to get one for five years, because she thought it would turn her into somebody who couldn't connect with other people - and, of course, she got a cellphone.

Jesse Eisenberg

PeopleThoughtSheGirlfriendTurn

We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.

Amy Goodman

ProtectAllowedJobsJournalists

Since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine.

Stanley Baldwin

DayThinkYouOldAirGone

As an adult, I'll give a writer 50 pages. If the book doesn't interest me in 50 pages, I'll say the heck with it - there are just too many other things to read. A child won't give you 50 pages.

Sid Fleischman

ChildMeBookYouSayThings

The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV.

Tom Shales

AgeCultureCreditLongDebtBeen

The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness.

Roland Allen

LoveTruthManSpiritRedemption

I came up through the theater. I came out of drama college and started working in the professional theater.

Roma Downey

CollegeProfessionalDramaOutUp

Courts are supposed to interpret laws to avoid 'absurd results' and to avoid constitutional problems - such as infringing on the free speech rights of Americans.

Marvin Ammori

FreeProblemsSpeechResultsRights

Again and again we are confronted with the reality - some might say the problem - of sharing our space with other living things, be they dogs, trees, fish or penguins.

Jonathan Safran Foer

SpaceTreesRealityFishProblem

My songs are like my children. I love every single one of them.

Dionne Warwick

LoveChildrenSingleLikeSongs

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.

Donna Brazile

MotivationalBe DifferentDifferent

I will continue modeling until they don't want me anymore basically because I do love it very much.

Claudia Schiffer

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