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I don't want to be movie-star famous. I want to move people with my writing.

~Ethan Canin

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It's safe to say that all poets are manic-depressives, but fiction writers are on that scale, too.

~Ethan Canin

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I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.

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Mathematicians don't like it when they're associated with mental illness and sort of bristle when you say that they can't get along socially, that they're not good with people.

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When I went for my medical school interview, I had an old paperback of 'Henderson the Rain King' in the pocket of my coat. I was wearing the best clothes I had - a pair of cords and a sport coat - but when I got to the office, all the other interviewees were lined up in their black suits.

~Ethan Canin

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I think Bellow's the greatest American writer of his century, personally. When I read him, I'm in awe.

~Ethan Canin

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I think that's what poets try to do: They try to sidestep neurology and go straight to meaning.

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It's the writer's job to disarm the reader of his logic, to just make the reader feel.

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I think one of the battles for fiction writers is how much to invent or exaggerate.

~Ethan Canin

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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

Topics: Ambition Appetites Bigger Every Exaggerated Failings Fiction Life Made Magnetism Personalities Politicians Sense Than Way

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 19th, 1960

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