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My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.

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Ethan Canin

I think fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition.

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

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Nothing is as important as a likable narrator. Nothing holds a story together better.

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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.

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Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that I love, other people hate. You can't please everybody.

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I think talent has a huge amount to do with concentration, concentration rather than the athletic ability of your neurons. If you can concentrate on an esoteric piece of math, how can you think about the rest of your life? That's why people can leave their car keys in the gutter; they're in the midst of obsession and concentration.

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