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In medical school, you're taught to write in this convoluted, Latinate way. I knew the vocabulary as well as anyone, but I would write kidney instead of nephric. I insisted on using English.

~Ethan Canin

Topics: Anyone English Insisted Instead Kidney Knew Medical Medical School School Taught Using Vocabulary Way Well Would Write You

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I'm a craftsman type of teacher. I don't like the thematic type of teaching that takes place in a lot of colleges.

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In the winter, I read next to a wood-burning stove. In the summer, we have a place up in Michigan where I like to read in a hammock. It's almost entirely hidden by cedar trees and right up by the water. You can climb in there and see nothing but water and be seen by nobody. It's perfect.

~Ethan Canin

Topics: Almost Climb Entirely Hammock Hidden Like Michigan Next Nobody Nothing Perfect Place Read Right See Seen Stove Summer Trees Up Water Where Winter You

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I was born in Ann Arbor. I lived for a while in Ohio; Pennsylvania, California for 10 years, and now in Boston. And I lived in Iowa for a couple of years, where I studied at the Writers Workshop.

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It used to be you sat up in your attic and wrote and went down to a local cafe and talked with people there.

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Books were king, but now movies are king, and books are sort of ignored. So now there's no sense of a welcoming community where you live.

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Topics: Books Community Ignored King Live Movies No Sense Now Sense Sort Welcoming Were Where You

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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

Topics: Certain Ever First Gesture Had Illuminates John Kind Kind Word Know Life Light Miserable Nasty Occasionally Read River Sensation Short Similar Something Sort Telling Who Word Writer You

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I've discovered over the years that being subject to both the adoration and the vilification actually makes me more disciplined. It makes me understand that it's the idea of writing a great book that propels me now, whereas it used to be the idea of success.

~Ethan Canin

Topics: Actually Adoration Being Book Both Disciplined Discovered Great Great Book Idea Makes Me More Now Over Subject Success Understand Used Whereas Writing Years

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If you're concentrating so damn hard on a piece of mathematics or a musical - a piece of music or a piece of art, the restraint that holds the rest of - the rest of the world back off and vanishes in the rest of your life.

~Ethan Canin

Topics: Art Back Concentrating Damn Hard Holds Life Mathematics Music Musical Off Piece Rest Restraint Vanishes World You Your

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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

Topics: Aspects Background Difficult Dreaming Easier Entirely Far Historical Imagination More Novel Own Rise Scenes Smaller Up Writing

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 19th, 1960

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