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Ethan Canin
Ethan Canin
American Author
Born: Jul 19, 1960
Life Me People Think Writing You
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
I'm a craftsman type of teacher. I don't like the thematic type of teaching that takes place in a lot of colleges. Ethan Canin
Teacher Type Colleges Takes Like Lot Craftsman Place Thematic Teaching
John Cheever was the first writer I ever read who sort of had that similar sensation that, you know, life is nasty, miserable, brutish and short, but that occasionally, there's a certain river of light, a kind word, a telling gesture that sort of illuminates something. Ethan Canin
Life You Light Word Miserable First Gesture Kind Telling Kind Word John Similar Something Writer River Had Know Occasionally Read Sort Nasty Short Sensation Certain Who Illuminates Ever
The historical background is one of the easier aspects of writing a novel. Far more difficult is dreaming up the smaller, character-based scenes, scenes that rise entirely from one's own imagination. Ethan Canin
Writing Own Difficult Imagination Background Easier Dreaming Rise Entirely More Scenes Smaller Historical Up Far Aspects Novel
I like certain people's work better than my own. Ethan Canin
Work People Better Own My Own Like Than Certain
It used to be you sat up in your attic and wrote and went down to a local cafe and talked with people there. Ethan Canin
You People Cafe Down Local Attic Wrote Talked Up Your Used Sat
'How does your life turn out?' That's the ultimate novelistic question to me. Ethan Canin
Life Me Out Does How Ultimate Question Turn Your
Families tend to artificially divide the world, imbuing one member with all the attributes and another with all the faults. But it's never that way. Ethan Canin
World Way Faults Member Tend Divide Never Another Attributes Families Artificially
When I write, I can become this ecstatic, crazy fellow, hearing the voices and just loosening up and letting them grow. Ethan Canin
Crazy Become Voices Write Ecstatic Fellow Hearing Up Just Them Grow Letting
When you're in medicine - especially when you're a resident in a public hospital - you feel like you're doing your part. But not when you're a writer. Ethan Canin
You Medicine Hospital Writer Part Feel Like Doing Public Your Resident
Writers of literature make very little money. Ethan Canin
Money Writers Make Very Literature Little Little Money
I can only remember two books from college that moved me: E.M. Forster's 'Howards End' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby.' Ethan Canin
Great Me Remember College Books Great Gatsby Only End Fitzgerald Scott Moved Two
I like to write about the moment of light in the hour of darkness. Ethan Canin
Darkness Light About Write Hour Like Moment
There has always been a tension in my life between the romantic and the practical. I can't hole myself up in a cabin and write down ideas for the rest of my life. I also need to be able to clean out a dog bite. Ethan Canin
Life Myself Dog Rest My Life Down Bite Out Able Clean Write Cabin Tension Between Ideas Also Practical Always Been Up Romantic Hole Need
I have a very bad memory. I can't remember my own life very well. Ethan Canin
Life Memory Remember Own Bad My Own Well Very
Medicine ended up being the best thing I ever did for my writing. Ethan Canin
Best Writing Medicine Up Did Ended Being Being The Best Ever Thing
There's a beauty to math. Math is so simple. It's just one step after the next. Ethan Canin
Simple Beauty Step Math Just After Just One Next
Any writer who says he loves writing is crazy. Or lying. Ethan Canin
Crazy Writing Lying Says Writer He Any Loves Who
You have to look at the value of different kinds of words. Adjectives weaken, and adverbs come even farther down the line. Verbs are strong; verbs and nouns. Ethan Canin
You Words Strong Value Different Kinds Down Weaken Adjectives Kinds Come Look Verbs Line Different Noun Farther Even
I still don't know whether I know how to write a sentence. Ethan Canin
Write Know How Still Whether Sentence
Although I think I'm relatively happy as a person, I think there's something unhappy at the root of all my writing. I'd say optimistic but unhappy. Nothing that's particularly original, other than that we're going to live and die, and terrible things happen. Ethan Canin
Happy Writing Unhappy Nothing Live Think Other Relatively Say Something Particularly Terrible Although Optimistic Than Person Die Going Happen Root Original Things Things Happen
Bausch is a wonderful storyteller. He's a mature writer who has a lot of confidence in the quality of character. He doesn't need to hook you with a sneaky plot and zany characters. Ethan Canin
Character You Confidence Quality Wonderful Hook Plot Characters Writer He Lot Sneaky Mature Storyteller Who Need
I never set out to be a published writer. Ethan Canin
Out Writer Never Published Set
Feeling useful in medicine allows me to not feel so stupid when making up stories. Ethan Canin
Me Feeling Stupid Medicine Feel Making Making Up Up Stories Useful
Medicine is a supremely useful profession. Fiction writing is not. Ethan Canin
Writing Medicine Supremely Fiction Fiction Writing Useful Profession
It's safe to say that all poets are manic-depressives, but fiction writers are on that scale, too. Ethan Canin
Too Say Scale Poets Writers Safe Fiction Fiction Writers
Mathematicians don't like it when they're associated with mental illness and sort of bristle when you say that they can't get along socially, that they're not good with people. Ethan Canin
Good You People Say Mental Mental Illness Along Like Sort Mathematicians Get Illness Socially Associated
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