It used to be you sat up in your attic and wrote and went down to a local cafe and talked with people there.
From Ethan Canin
Books were king, but now movies are king, and books are sort of ignored. So now there's no sense of a welcoming community where you live.
What's more interesting than the arc of lives?
'How does your life turn out?' That's the ultimate novelistic question to me.
I don't think success makes one confident. I think it has more to do with character than circumstance.
If you try to write a novel in L.A., you're a chump; everyone is speeding by, and you're driving a rickshaw.
No matter what writers say, most stories are about ourselves. The facts might change a little, but not much.
I like writing about the evil lurking in apparently good people.
Families tend to artificially divide the world, imbuing one member with all the attributes and another with all the faults. But it's never that way.
When I write, I can become this ecstatic, crazy fellow, hearing the voices and just loosening up and letting them grow.
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