Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished … - Ethan Canin

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The American founding is not just about a group of people, a group of men. It is about an ideal: Both a vision and understanding of the very essence of democracy, constitutional government, a representative republic, and the remarkably powerful concept of being endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights.

Ethan Canin

Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have a book out.

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

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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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