There are some advantages to being a writer: you do generally get better as you get older. I think I understand things better. When I was a kid, I was kind of guessing at the emotion. Now I'm interested in writing more difficult books, books that confront the facts of life, of death and dying and failure - the majority of life. You write outwardly imaginative books when you're younger. When you're older you apply imagination to internal experience.
I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much...people who are not lazy are Isaac Asimov. - Ethan Canin
I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much...people who are not lazy are Isaac Asimov.
- Ethan Canin
I think talent has a huge amount to do with concentration, concentration rather than the athletic ability of your neurons. If you can concentrate on … - Ethan Canin
I think talent has a huge amount to do with concentration, concentration rather than the athletic ability of your neurons. If you can concentrate on …
You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or the care of the construction t… - Ethan Canin
You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or the care of the construction t…
If someone doesn't like your fiction, it's really insulting. - Ethan Canin
If someone doesn't like your fiction, it's really insulting.
I think fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition. - Ethan Canin
I think fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition.
You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base. - Ethan Canin
You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base.
Nothing is as important as a likable narrator. Nothing holds a story together better. - Ethan Canin
Nothing is as important as a likable narrator. Nothing holds a story together better.
There are some advantages to being a writer: you do generally get better as you get older. I think I understand things better. When I was a kid, I wa… - Ethan Canin
There are some advantages to being a writer: you do generally get better as you get older. I think I understand things better. When I was a kid, I wa…
Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have a boo… - Ethan Canin
Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have a boo…
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