Art Quote by Ethan Canin

“You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or the care of the construction the difference between art and life.” quote by Ethan Canin — Download Open image

“You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or the care of the construction the difference between art and life.”

Ethan Canin

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If someone doesn't like your fiction, it's really insulting.

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You're never so alive as after you thought you were going to die.

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