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 an esoteric piece of math, how can you think about the rest of your life? That's why people can leave their car keys in the gutter; they're in the midst of obsession and concentration.
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 …
- 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'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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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