Ethan Canin Quotes
Politicians are already exaggerated. They're bigger than life in every way - their appetites, their ambitions, their personalities, their failings, their magnetism. In a sense, they're made for fiction.
Ethan Canin
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Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.
Octavia E. Butler
Politicians are, in general, receptive to those who make the most noise.
Dan Pink
If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
Veronica Roth
If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?
J. M. Coetzee
'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books.
L.A. Weatherly
Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians.
Harold Ford, Jr.
In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
Damon Lindelof
Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.
Maya Angelou
Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.
Andrew Vachss
A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.
Oscar Wilde
I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.
Edwidge Danticat
Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men.
Abraham Lincoln
You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions.
Paul Auster
I struggled in school. Math and science were difficult for me. But I can watch 10 guys play, and I can tell you what everybody did. It might be a curse because when you see everything, sometimes you don't let your kids play.
Larry Brown
History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.
David Von Drehle
You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
M. Scott Peck
Attending fully and becoming supple, Can you be as a newborn babe?
Lao Tzu
Politicians are already exaggerated. They're bigger than life in every way - their appetites, their ambitions, their personalities, their failings, their magnetism. In a sense, they're made for fiction.
Ethan Canin
