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
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
“He's filled with a sense of childish release, the old feeling that because you are sick, all your trials and obligations have… — Michael Cunningham Feeling sick 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 Breathing Copy Share Image
These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“It’s better, really, to go out in a blaze. That’s why we love Marilyn, and James Dean. We love the ones who… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I… — Michael Cunningham Accidents Copy Share Image
“It’s your life, quite possibly your only one. Still you find yourself having a vodka at three a.m., waiting for your pill… — Michael Cunningham Life Copy Share Image
If she were religious, she would call it the soul. It is more than the sum of her intellect and her emotions,… — Michael Cunningham Brilliant Copy Share Image
“Beauty - the beauty Peter craves - is this, then: a human bundle of accidental grace and doom and hope. Mizzy must… — Michael Cunningham Beauty Copy Share Image
The vestibule door opens onto a June morning so fine and scrubbed Classira pauses at the threshold as she would at the… — Michael Cunningham Blue Copy Share Image
How we dress is, as far as I can tell, the only inescapably public choice that we have. People don't need to… — Michael Cunningham Care 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… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each… — Michael Cunningham Dinner Copy Share Image
“... Andrew, who, in the wry of certain gods, couldn't care less about human squabblings; who literally fails to understand them. There… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“I suppose at heart it was the haircut that did it; that exploded the ordinary order of things and showed me the… — Michael Cunningham Hair Copy Share Image
“We'd hoped vaguely to fall in love but hadn't worried much about it, because we'd thought we had all the time in… — Michael Cunningham Fall in love Copy Share Image
“It had seemed like the beginning of happiness, and Clarissa is still sometimes shocked, more than thirty years later to realize that… — Michael Cunningham Happiness Copy Share Image
“Oh, pride, pride. I was so wrong. It defeated me. It simply proved insurmountable. There was so much, oh, far too much… — Michael Cunningham Looking for sympathy Copy Share Image
“The song is an unvarnished love shout, an implorement tinged with...anger? Something like anger, but the anger of a philosoher, the anger… — Michael Cunningham Anger Copy Share Image
“She's had a long life. Now she's going to the Lord." "Frankly it creeps me out a little when you say things… — Michael Cunningham Afterlife Copy Share Image
“And so, he knows. He wants, he needs, to do the immoral, irresponsible thing. He wants to let this boy court his… — Michael Cunningham Good behavior Copy Share Image
“He believes that a real work of art can be owned but should not be subject to capture; that it should radiate… — Michael Cunningham Art Copy Share Image
“Barret thinks- he thinks, briefly- of turning around and leaving the park; of being, this time, the vanisher, the man who leaves… — Michael Cunningham Compassion Copy Share Image
“A celestial light appeared to Barrett Meeks in the sky over Central Park, four days after Barrett had been mauled, once again,… — Michael Cunningham Celestial Copy Share Image
“She will never mention to Leonard that she'd planned on fleeing, even for a few hours. As if he were the one… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“The book worm, the foreign-looking one with the dark, close set eyes an the Roman nose, who had never been sought after… — Michael Cunningham Books Copy Share Image
“I see myself..in those pages as she goes back and forth, enjoying simply enjoying the beauties of the moments then chastising herself… — Michael Cunningham Beauty Copy Share Image
What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand… — Michael Cunningham Adventure Copy Share Image
“She is an attractive, robust, fleshy, large-headed woman several years younger than Laura (it seems that every one, suddenly, is at least… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage… — Michael Cunningham Cadence Copy Share Image
“Isn’t the universe full of gaseous elements?” Andrew says, “Yeah, there are gases and neutrinos and this shit they call dark matter.” — Michael Cunningham Dark matter Copy Share Image
“But then again, in addition to paper and cardboard...a little illuminated box, that contains thousands and thousands of stories? People aren’t fascinated… — Michael Cunningham Books Copy Share Image
“What’s the most fundamental human urge?” Barrett recites for her. “To find the perfect pair of jeans. To find the jeans that… — 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… — Michael Cunningham Mother Copy Share Image
“Parents are the mystified criminals, blinking in the docks, making it all the worse for themselves with every word they utter.” — Michael Cunningham Child Copy Share Image
“Julian is bluff and sturdy, royal; he possesses a gracefully muscular, equine beauty so natural it suggests that beauty itself is a… — Michael Cunningham Beauty Copy Share Image
If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“I've been just wondering lately, if this is, you know, it. An apartment and a steady job and some people to love.… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“...sanity involves a certain measure of impersonation, not simply for the benefit of husband and servants but for the sake, first and… — Michael Cunningham Impersonation Copy Share Image
