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If you write a page a day in couple months you have a good chunk of the book and then after a year you have almost a book. It's not that ... hard. — Ethan Canin

I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much ... people who are not lazy are Isaac Asimov ... — Ethan Canin

I work with wood a lot. I like building. I think of building. I would love to buy land on some water somewhere and build a house. That'd be nice. — Ethan Canin

He was going to think about her and think about her until she disappeared. — Ethan Canin

There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have the power ... — Ethan Canin

[G]enius is a true degenerative psychosis belonging to the group of moral insanity . . . — Cesare Lombroso

One of the hallmarks of our politics now is that we tend to elect those who can campaign over those who can lead; — Ethan Canin

The connectors have gained the upper hand. We isolationists languish in the caves. Take — Ethan Canin

To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it. — Ethan Canin

You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base. — Ethan Canin

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

People punch up," he said. "They punch the ones who are better than them. Nobody likes a kid who does something well. That — Ethan Canin

I think fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition. — Ethan Canin

Happy isn't even a real idea," he said. "It's just like love. A reasonably skeptical person doesn't even know what it means. — Ethan Canin

Don't write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story. — Ethan Canin

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