Ethan Canin Quotes
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.
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You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I keep my books in them.
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No one today knows what is indecent.
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I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
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Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
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May books spread the world over!
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I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
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I have great admiration for the fact – checking team. Considering it takes me years to gather all the facts in my books, it's a daunting task for the fact – checkers to review all of that material in a matter of weeks.
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There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.
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It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.
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I collect books - a lot of books.
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America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think editors should look after them, and make less effort to please people who don't actually like books.
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My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
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There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know: the Hamlets or the Henry Vs or the Othellos or the Cleopatras that we've seen on stage.
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I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"
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You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
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The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.
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What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
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Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.
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No one knows why books do well.
