Novel Quotes by Michael Cunningham

8 Novel quotes by Michael Cunningham

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Michael Cunningham provides eight short notes on the novel, each highlighting his elegant narrative style. This brief collection offers a clear taste of his literary voice.

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I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.

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Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out…

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You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a…

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At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like…

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There's the fact that American fiction is basically the most apolitical fiction on the globe. A South American writer wouldn't dare think…

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I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a…

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I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite…

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Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I…

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“Mizzy has wandered into the garden. Carole looks contemplatively at him, says, "Lovely boy." "My wife's insanely younger brother. He's one of those kids…

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“Zoe loved Trancas's mother. She respected her exhausted and ironic hope for rebirth.”

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The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.

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“How often since then has she wondered what might have happened if she'd tried to remain with him; if she’d returned Richard's kiss on…

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“...a full week of their mother's quiet fury over the fun they don't seem to be having and their father's dogged attempts to provide…

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Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become?

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“She wants to have baked a cake that banishes sorrow, even if only for a little while.”

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“And yet, it gives Peter nothing. Not now. Not today. Not when he needs... more. More than this well-executed idea. More than the shark…

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He insists on a version of you that is funnier, stranger, more eccentric and prfound thatn you suspect yourself to be--capable of doing more…

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The worst are full of passionate intensity while the best lack all conviction.

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“And here he is, letting the massive steel street door click shut behind him, standing at the top of the three iron steps that…

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It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you.

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“She's had a long life. Now she's going to the Lord." "Frankly it creeps me out a little when you say things like that,"…

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Any other vexations to report?" he asks. "I love the word 'vexations.'" "It's the 'x.' Nice to jump off a 'v' and bite into…

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Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

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