If you write a page a day in couple months you have a good chunk of the book and then after a year you have almost a book. It's not that...hard.
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.
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.
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.
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 Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have a boo… - Ethan Canin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 Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have a boo…
There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have the power. - Ethan Canin
There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have the power.
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