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'How does your life turn out?' That's the ultimate novelistic question to me.

~Ethan Canin

Topics: Does How Life Me Out Question Turn Ultimate Your

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I don't think success makes one confident. I think it has more to do with character than circumstance.

~Ethan Canin

Topics: Character Circumstance Confident Makes More Success Than Think I Think

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If you try to write a novel in L.A., you're a chump; everyone is speeding by, and you're driving a rickshaw.

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Topics: Driving Everyone Novel Speeding Try Write You

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No matter what writers say, most stories are about ourselves. The facts might change a little, but not much.

~Ethan Canin

Topics: About Change Facts Little Matter Might Most Much Ourselves Say Stories Writers

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I like writing about the evil lurking in apparently good people.

~Ethan Canin

Topics: About Apparently Evil Good Good People Like Lurking People Writing

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Families tend to artificially divide the world, imbuing one member with all the attributes and another with all the faults. But it's never that way.

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Topics: Another Artificially Attributes Divide Families Faults Member Never Tend Way World

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When I write, I can become this ecstatic, crazy fellow, hearing the voices and just loosening up and letting them grow.

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Topics: Become Crazy Ecstatic Fellow Grow Hearing Just Letting Them Up Voices Write I Can I Write

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A novel, at least for me, cannot be visualized at one time.

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Topics: Cannot Least Me Novel One Time Time

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When the narrator says, 'This is a story without surprises,' most of the time, this is not what happens.

~Ethan Canin

Topics: Happens Most Narrator Says Story Surprises Time Without

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People are surprised when Hollywood characters act the way a real person would.

~Ethan Canin

Topics: Act Characters Hollywood People Person Real Real Person Surprised Way Would

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 19th, 1960

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