Serious Reader Quotes by Michael Cunningham

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• There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open…
• Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage…
• I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
• Dear Leonard. To look life in the face. Always to look life in the face and to know it for what it…
• What do you do when you're no longer the hero of your own story?
• Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is…
• As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.
• If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book…

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