107 Quotes by Ethan Canin

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

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

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

When you're in medicine - especially when you're a resident in a public hospital - you feel like you're doing your part. But not when you're a writer.

Writers of literature make very little money.

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.

Point of view gets me. If I can feel like a character rather than a reader, I'll read that book.

I can only remember two books from college that moved me: E.M. Forster's 'Howards End' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby.'