Ethan Canin Quotes

Any writer who says he loves writing is crazy. Or lying.

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• I understood from an early age what being competitive means.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Age
  • Being
  • Early

• I believe that we live in a 'return to sender universe' - what you send out is exactly what you will get back.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Universe

• Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Sense
  • Word
  • Century

• There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Time
  • Work
  • Men

• I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Taken
  • Child
  • Liberty

• As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.

  

  Dana Hussein
  • Long
  • Country
  • Ambition

• I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on the readers and try to lead them to a conclusion. As a reader, I understand what a fair report is.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Want
  • Stress
  • Prejudice

• I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.

  

  Abdullah Ibrahim
  • People
  • True
  • Taken

• As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Up
  • Me
  • Difficult

• If you can serve everyone who visits you, you must be doing well in business.

  

  Ahmet Davutoglu
  • Business

• John McConnell may have used the phrase Earth Day before we did, (but) he knows our events were not similar. Ours was a political exercise. His was a peace exercise.

  

  Gaylord Nelson
  • May
  • Political
  • Earth

• I'm surprised that people think they're important. To me they're not.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• I think God surrounds us, in all different manifestations of the energy.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • God
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • People
  • Hate
  • Scotland

• King Hussein never lost his faith, no matter how difficult and unbearable and cruel the circumstances could be. I always remember that. It helps me get through everything. It's a way of trying to keep that positive spirit alive for as many people as we can touch. I think that's good for the world.

  

  Queen Noor of Jordan
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, why should he integrate animality into this sacred human emotion?...Is love incompelete without it?...Is love the name of physical excersize ?

  

  Saadat Hasan Manto
  • Men
  • Why
  • Names

• It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity.

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
  • World
  • Artist
  • Rebel

• I have been lately introduced to the famous Thomas Paine, and like him very well. He is vain beyond all belief, but he has reason to be vain, and for my part I forgive him. He has done wonders for the cause of liberty, both in America and Europe, and I believe him to be conscientiously an honest man. He converses extremely well; and I find him wittier in discourse than in his writings, where his humour is clumsy enough.

  

  Wolfe Tone
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Wonder

• You know how Van Nuys got its name? Well, one day my little old Jewish mother was visiting me, and I took her to the top of the Hollywood Hills and had her view the valley below just at sunset. Well, mama, what would you call that? And she said, Ver nize.

  

  Joey Bishop
  • She
  • Mother
  • Hollywood

• A resourceful person will always make opportunity fit his or her needs.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Opportunity
  • Person
  • Needs

• Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Loves
  • Mask
  • Figure

• Any writer who says he loves writing is crazy. Or lying.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Lying
  • Writer
  • Loves