Quotes by : Ethan Canin

In medical school, you're taught to write in this convoluted, Latinate way. I knew the vocabulary as....

You know that thing people say, 'poetry is the hardest, stories are the second hardest, novels are the....

When I went for my medical school interview, I had an old paperback of 'Henderson the Rain King' in the....

There has always been a tension in my life between the romantic and the practical. I can't hole myself....

I'm a craftsman type of teacher. I don't like the thematic type of teaching that takes place in a lot....

I don't think there is such a thing as pure imagination. I think it's a combination of memory and invention.....

In people like us, the craving is as strong as the craving for food or water, the yearning for touch....

The historical background is one of the easier aspects of writing a novel. Far more difficult is dreaming....

As soon as we conform anything to language, we’ve changed it. Use a word and you’ve altered the world.....

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