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I'm a Jew. I think every Jew is dark in certain ways.

~Ethan Canin

Topics: Certain Dark Every Jew Think Ways I Think

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Doubt is the enemy of mania. It's trying to get aloft strung with weights. The moment I like writing is three sentences in, when somehow those weights drop away, and you can invent. I cannot tell you the dread I have.

~Ethan Canin

Topics: Away Cannot Doubt Dread Drop Enemy Get Invent Like Mania Moment Sentences Somehow Tell Those Three Trying Weights Writing You

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I still don't know whether I know how to write a sentence.

~Ethan Canin

Topics: How Know Sentence Still Whether Write

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Although I think I'm relatively happy as a person, I think there's something unhappy at the root of all my writing. I'd say optimistic but unhappy. Nothing that's particularly original, other than that we're going to live and die, and terrible things happen.

~Ethan Canin

Topics: Although Die Going Happen Happy Live Nothing Optimistic Original Other Particularly Person Relatively Root Say Something Terrible Than Things Things Happen Think Unhappy Writing I Think

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It's such a risk to write a novel that it's easy to become conservative - you're spending what would be, for me, a couple of years of my life on a single idea. Which is maybe one of the reasons I write stories - if it doesn't work, you've only lost a month.

~Ethan Canin

Topics: Become Conservative Couple Easy Idea Life Lost Maybe Me Month My Life Novel Only Reasons Risk Single Spending Stories Which Work Would Write Years You I Write

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Bausch is a wonderful storyteller. He's a mature writer who has a lot of confidence in the quality of character. He doesn't need to hook you with a sneaky plot and zany characters.

~Ethan Canin

Topics: Character Characters Confidence He Hook Lot Mature Need Plot Quality Sneaky Storyteller Who Wonderful Writer You

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I never set out to be a published writer.

~Ethan Canin

Topics: Never Out Published Set Writer

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Feeling useful in medicine allows me to not feel so stupid when making up stories.

~Ethan Canin

Topics: Feel Feeling Making Making Up Me Medicine Stories Stupid Up Useful

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I like medicine. Even if I was selling a million books a year, I would still be a doctor.

~Ethan Canin

Topics: Books Doctor Even Like Medicine Million Selling Still Would Year

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Medicine is a supremely useful profession. Fiction writing is not.

~Ethan Canin

Topics: Fiction Medicine Profession Supremely Useful Writing

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 19th, 1960

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