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Book Quotes by Michael Cunningham
- Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough…
- If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book again, but as…
- I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
- The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.
- I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture…
- I know, speaking for myself, no matter what I'm able to do, no matter what book comes out and ends up on paper, I always…
- Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the…
- Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high…
- You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast…
- One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.
- She is, above all else, tired; she wants more than anything to return to her bed and her book. The world, this world, feels suddenly…
- You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes.
- We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite…
- The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write a great book.…
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov