She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric. — 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
One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
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
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 wanted to be a writer, that's all. I wanted to write about it all. Everything that happens in a moment. The… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
You could say I don't want for me be seen primarily as a gay writer. I've never hidden my sexuality. It matters… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be… — 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
We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“I’ve learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself. It is… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I don't have any regrets, really, except that one. I wanted to write about you, about us, really. Do you know what… — 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
