Best quotes by Ethan Canin on Life

Checkout quotes by Ethan Canin on Life

  • 'How does your life turn out?' That's the ultimate novelistic question to me.
    - Ethan Canin
  • There has always been a tension in my life between the romantic and the practical. I can't hole myself up in a cabin and write down ideas for the rest of my life. I also need to be able to clean out a dog bite.
    - Ethan Canin
  • I have a very bad memory. I can't remember my own life very well.
    - Ethan Canin
  • John Cheever was the first writer I ever read who sort of had that similar sensation that, you know, life is nasty, miserable, brutish and short, but that occasionally, there's a certain river of light, a kind word, a telling gesture that sort of illuminates something.
    - Ethan Canin
  • It's such a risk to write a novel that it's easy to become conservative - you're spending what would be, for me, a couple of years of my life on a single idea. Which is maybe one of the reasons I write stories - if it doesn't work, you've only lost a month.
    - Ethan Canin