Ethan Canin Quotes

My idea of teaching literature is just to read great passages aloud or to look at it the way a writer does, which is what I try to do. Which is to say, 'How does this writer do this? How did he order his scenes? Do you notice any pattern to his sentences?'

Ethan Canin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GreatLiteratureYouLookSayWay

In 2012 there was a megafoolish, if well-funded, effort by a group called Americans Elect to raise an independent Cincinnatus to run for president via an Internet draft. It flopped, spectacularly.

Joe Klein

EffortInternetGroupRunPresident

Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

Joe Biden

RememberVotePresidentMeanVice

The bottom line is that weather events not only threaten private property and family budgets, but they also can decimate public resources and government coffers.

Matt Cartwright

FamilyGovernmentWeatherLineOnly

Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.

Josh Peck

LifeArtSadnessRealTakeArtists

The fact that a crime might have been committed with impunity in the past may make it seem more familiar and less gruesome, but surely does not give it any greater legitimacy.

Jonathan Kozol

PastCrimeMoreSeemMayGive

I view every film as a commitment to undertake a long journey.

Arnon Goldfinger

JourneyCommitmentViewLongFilm

I guess I've always been something of an outsider.

Shaun Evans

AlwaysOutsiderSomethingBeenGuess

Novelists tend to go off at 70, and I'm in a funk about it, I've got myself into a real paranoid funk about it, how the talent dies before the body.

Martin Amis

MyselfTalentBodyGoRealParanoid

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

Morris Raphael Cohen

ReligionGrowAccidentsOutCruel

My friends call me Keith, but you can call me John.

Keith Moon

MeFriendsYouCallJohn

I don't know how the rap game is, because I'm a fan of reality, and the rap game's entertainment.

Kevin Gates

GameRealityKnowEntertainmentRap

When I returned to Armenia after four months in Brazil, I was still quite skinny and weak, but I had technique and skill.

Henrikh Mkhitaryan

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