I think talent has a huge amount to do with concentration, concentration rather than the athletic ability of your neurons. If you can concentrate on an esoteric piece of math, how can you think about the rest of your life?… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that I love,… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
I work with wood a lot. I like building. I think of building. I would love to buy land on some water somewhere and… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
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. — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
“The forgotten of this country have a consistent history of turning on their champions, and I suppose the way working men and women have forsaken the very politicians who could help them most speaks of the primacy of emotion in politics. Perhaps the great decline of FDR's party, which was beginning in Henry Bonwiller's time, didn't come about because Democrats… — Ethan Canin Copy Share
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… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
Don't write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story. — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much...people who are not lazy are Isaac… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
There are some advantages to being a writer: you do generally get better as you get older. I think I understand things better. When… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that,… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
I think talent has a huge amount to do with concentration, concentration rather than the athletic ability of your neurons. If you can concentrate… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
