Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that I love, other people hate. You can't please everybody.
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
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…
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 …
If someone doesn't like your fiction, it's really insulting. - Ethan Canin
If someone doesn't like your fiction, it's really insulting.
You're never so alive as after you thought you were going to die. - Ethan Canin
You're never so alive as after you thought you were going to die.
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.
I think fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition. - Ethan Canin
I think fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition.
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…
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