107 Quotes by Ethan Canin

You’re never so alive as after you thought you were going to die.

There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it’s fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn’t really have the power...

You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base.

If someone doesn’t like your fiction, it’s really insulting.

Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it’s horrible to have a book out.

I work with wood a lot. I like building. I think of building. I would love to buy land on some water somewhere and build a house. That’d be nice.

Dawkins once said that he opposed religion mainly because it taught us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

An infant, in his first sleepiness, must let go of the world; a man must learn to die. What comes between are the grains of sand. Ambition. Loss. Envy. Desire. Hatred. Love. Tenderness. Joy. Shame. Loneliness. Ecstasy. Ache. Surrender.

One of the hallmarks of our politics now is that we tend to elect those who can campaign over those who can lead;.