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I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.

- Ethan Canin
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I'm becoming more of a novelist as I get older. The novel just seems the truer form. There's less artifice involved.

When you're in medicine - especially when you're a resident in a public hospital - you feel like you're doing your part. But not when you're a writer.

Writers of literature make very little money.

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.

I was never writing for commercial success. It's nice that it has come, but it is not important.

I can only remember two books from college that moved me: E.M. Forster's 'Howards End' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby.'

You don't idea your way into a plot but plot your way into an idea.

The only successful way to write, and the only one I have found, is to be the character. Give up on trying to control them. Writers always talk about hearing voices. That's what they mean.

I was born in Ann Arbor. I lived for a while in Ohio; Pennsylvania, California for 10 years, and now in Boston. And I lived in Iowa for a couple of years, where I studied at the Writers Workshop.

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I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.

I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.

I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.

I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.

I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.

I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.

I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.

I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.

I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.

I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.

I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.

I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.

I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.

I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.

I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.