A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Her cake is a failure, but she is loved anyway. She is loved, she thinks, in more or less the way the… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I think of the people who commit these acts as children. They're in their 20s, but like certain children, they have been… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“She thinks of how much more space a being occupies in life that it does in death; how much illusion of size… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
There's the fact that American fiction is basically the most apolitical fiction on the globe. A South American writer wouldn't dare think… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Yes," she answers and does not move. She might, at this moment, be nothing but a floating intelligence; not even a brain… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I am beginning to understand the true difference between youth and age. Young people have time to make plans and think of… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
He's one of those smart, drifty young people who, after certain deliberations, decides he wants to do Something in the Arts but… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“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… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Zoe loved Trancas's mother. She respected her exhausted and ironic hope for rebirth.” — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“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… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“...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… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become? — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“She wants to have baked a cake that banishes sorrow, even if only for a little while.” — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“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… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
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… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
The worst are full of passionate intensity while the best lack all conviction. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“And here he is, letting the massive steel street door click shut behind him, standing at the top of the three iron steps that… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
