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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In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.
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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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I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
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I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.
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We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery of America-you only discover it once. The age in which we live is the age in which we are discovering the fundamental laws of nature, and that day will never come again. It is very exciting, it is marvelous, but this excitement will have to go.
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You know, I don't feel fifty. I feel not a day over forty-nine. It's incredible. I'm bouncy, I feel bouncy.
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No one knows why books do well.
