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Michael Cunningham Quotes

Michael Cunningham quotes

American Writer November 6, 1952

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The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write a great book. But if we remove that from the equation, it's the same impulse and they are equally entitled to their ecstasies and their despair. Michael Cunningham
I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions. Michael Cunningham
There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more. Michael Cunningham
Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind. I think a lot of writers must negotiate this, and if they don't admit it, they're not being honest. Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham quote: "I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the..."
I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss. Michael Cunningham
Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear. Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham quote: "The art we produce lives in queasy balance with the art we can..."
The art we produce lives in queasy balance with the art we can imagine the art the room expects. Michael Cunningham
I don't know if I can face this. You know. The party and the ceremony, and then the hour after that, and the hour after that."You don't have to go to the party. You don't have to go to the ceremony. You don't have to do anything at all."But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another. I'm so sick. Michael Cunningham
She will remain sane and she will live as she was meant to live, richly and deeply, among others of her kind, in full possession and command of her gifts. Michael Cunningham
Before there was any talk of a movie, people would sometimes ask me what actors I would imagine playing these characters. And the only thing I could ever say is: I have such a clear idea of these characters that they'd have to play themselves. Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham quote: "That summer when she was eighteen, it seemed anything could..."
That summer when she was eighteen, it seemed anything could happen, anything at all. Michael Cunningham
And here he is, letting the massive steel street door click shut behind him, standing at the top of the three iron steps that lead down to the shattered sidewalk. New York is probably, in this regard at least, the strangest city in the world, so many of its denizens living as they (we) do among the unreconstructed remnants of nineteenth-century sweatshops and tenements, the streets potholed and buckling while right over there, around the corner, is a Chanel boutique. We go shopping amid the... Michael Cunningham
There is no one there to see it. The world is doing what it always does, demonstrating itself to itself. The world has no interest in the little figures that come and go, the phantoms that worry and worship, that rake the graveled paths and erect the occasional rock garden, the bronze boy-man, the hammered cup for snow to fall into. Michael Cunningham
You don't necessarily meet a lot of people in this world. Not when you let yourself get distracted by music and the passing of hours. Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham quote: "Please, God, send me something to adore."
Please, God, send me something to adore. Michael Cunningham

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