One of my favorite ways to find fictional inspiration, by the way, is to browse historical timelines...
ETHAN CANIN There once was this powerful, both capital and political, class who cared about supporting and affir...
ETHAN CANIN You have to look at the value of different kinds of words. Adjectives weaken, and adverbs come even ...
ETHAN CANIN In the winter, I read next to a wood-burning stove. In the summer, we have a place up in Michigan wh...
ETHAN CANIN I think one of the things that is essential for happiness in life, or at least for non-sadness, is p...
ETHAN CANIN Politicians are already exaggerated. They're bigger than life in every way - their appetites, th...
ETHAN CANIN Families tend to artificially divide the world, imbuing one member with all the attributes and anoth...
ETHAN CANIN I'm becoming more of a novelist as I get older. The novel just seems the truer form. There's...
ETHAN CANIN In medicine, there's a fairly large but still finite body of knowledge that you need at hand for...
ETHAN CANIN It's the writer's job to disarm the reader of his logic, to just make the reader feel.
ETHAN CANIN I can only remember two books from college that moved me: E.M. Forster's 'Howards End' a...
ETHAN CANIN Medicine is a supremely useful profession. Fiction writing is not.
ETHAN CANIN In medical school, you're taught to write in this convoluted, Latinate way. I knew the vocabular...
ETHAN CANIN I was born in Ann Arbor. I lived for a while in Ohio; Pennsylvania, California for 10 years, and now...
ETHAN CANIN John Cheever was the first writer I ever read who sort of had that similar sensation that, you know,...
ETHAN CANIN When I went for my medical school interview, I had an old paperback of 'Henderson the Rain King&...
ETHAN CANIN I like writing about the evil lurking in apparently good people.
ETHAN CANIN The short story can't really hold an interesting event. It can't hold a death or a war or a ...
ETHAN CANIN I teach a 14-week semester, and one of the things I do when I have to teach literature is, for the f...
ETHAN CANIN When the narrator says, 'This is a story without surprises,' most of the time, this is not w...
ETHAN CANIN I finished 'America America,' and I knew I had to write another book, not just for personal ...
ETHAN CANIN If you're concentrating so damn hard on a piece of mathematics or a musical - a piece of music o...
ETHAN CANIN A novel, at least for me, cannot be visualized at one time.
ETHAN CANIN Happy isn't even a real idea," he said. "It's just like love. A reasonably skeptical person doesn't ...
ETHAN CANIN I think even great writers only write two books that you might like. When I think of my touchstone w...
ETHAN CANIN Bausch is a wonderful storyteller. He's a mature writer who has a lot of confidence in the quali...
ETHAN CANIN Doubt is the enemy of mania. It's trying to get aloft strung with weights. The moment I like wri...
ETHAN CANIN I'm a craftsman type of teacher. I don't like the thematic type of teaching that takes place...
ETHAN CANIN Books were king, but now movies are king and books are sort of ignored. So now there's no sense of a...
ETHAN CANIN It used to be you sat up in your attic and wrote and went down to a local cafe and talked with peopl...
ETHAN CANIN Medicine ended up being the best thing I ever did for my writing.
ETHAN CANIN When I write, I can become this ecstatic, crazy fellow, hearing the voices and just loosening up and...
ETHAN CANIN If you try to write a novel in L.A., you're a chump; everyone is speeding by, and you're dri...
ETHAN CANIN It's nice when critics say 'Emperor of the Air' is an important book of stories.
ETHAN CANIN The historical background is one of the easier aspects of writing a novel. Far more difficult is dre...
ETHAN CANIN I don't think there is such a thing as pure imagination. I think it's a combination of memor...
ETHAN CANIN Fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition, small disappointed hope.
ETHAN CANIN I have a very bad memory. I can't remember my own life very well.
ETHAN CANIN Books were king, but now movies are king, and books are sort of ignored. So now there's no sense...
ETHAN CANIN Mathematicians don't like it when they're associated with mental illness and sort of bristle...
ETHAN CANIN I like to write about the moment of light in the hour of darkness.
ETHAN CANIN There's a beauty to math. Math is so simple. It's just one step after the next.
ETHAN CANIN The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intell...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN Forget love, I'd rather fall in chocolate.
ETHAN EMBRY Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages ...
ETHAN HAWKE Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood release...
ETHAN COEN You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a mov...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only wit...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN I really like The Catcher in the Rye a lot.
ETHAN SUPLEE Everyone has to pay their child support, and no matter if you're a Hollywood actor or anyone els...
ETHAN HAWKE I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. B...
ETHAN HAWKE It's more interesting for me as an audience member to see a movie about a loser.
ETHAN COEN Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or wi...
ETHAN ALLEN When you do 'Before Sunset,' you know while it's a limited audience, there was a very sm...
ETHAN HAWKE When you sign up for Facebook, the service first searches for any mentions of your name and suggests...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN Ever since I arrived to a state of manhood, I have felt a sincere passion for liberty. The history o...
ETHAN ALLEN Go for the hum.
ETHAN MORDDEN I've had a lot of experience in independent film, and about how to choose. You've got to be ...
ETHAN HAWKE While we are under the tyranny of Priests [...] it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the la...
ETHAN ALLEN Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or wi...
ETHAN ALLEN "Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!"[Ethan Allen, to his physicia...
ETHAN ALLEN Street Sweep .
ETHAN ALLEN Today we are reaching from younger people to? baby boomers and up.
ETHAN ALLEN There is not any thing, which has contributed so much to delude mankind in religious matters, as mis...
ETHAN ALLEN "Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!" [Ethan Allen, to his physici...
ETHAN ALLEN In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in t...
ETHAN ALLEN We were able to maintain our current prices in spite of increases in materials and shipping costs, ....
ETHAN ALLEN and once it leaves their hands it's someone else's problem.
ETHAN ALBRIGHT You know, it would have been harder on me had those guys been 10-year vets, ... But they are so youn...
ETHAN ALBRIGHT The bottom line on this job is easy, ... If I do it right this Sunday, they'll let me come back and ...
ETHAN ALBRIGHT Seems like it's something different every time, ... Denver had tall guys getting right in the gap. T...
ETHAN ALBRIGHT I was the running joke in Miami, they were cutting me and recalling me so many times. I had six or s...
ETHAN ALBRIGHT I always, always hated it, ... but I was always the only kid on the team who could do it. So my coac...
ETHAN ALBRIGHT My brother wouldn't let me just throw it back to him. He taught me how to long snap, and he told me ...
ETHAN ALBRIGHT In 12 years of playing, I've never been on a team that won a playoff game. That was awesome. They we...
ETHAN ALBRIGHT In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in t...
ETHAN ALLEN You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life.
ETHAN EMBRY He enlisted and went on to fight in World War II and fight for civil rights at home, when he got bac...
ETHAN HAWKE I kill flies, I eat meat, you know, whatever.
ETHAN HAWKE My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any mo...
ETHAN HAWKE Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past,
ETHAN HAWKE My grandfather was a great example of his generation,
ETHAN HAWKE There are a great many people that see independent film as a stepping stone to some kind of grand id...
ETHAN HAWKE The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN The U.S. pointing to China is a bit like the pot calling the kettle black. The deficit with China re...
ETHAN HARRIS This is a classic case of short-term hysteria and mania. Who knows how much longer this can go up bu...
ETHAN MCAFEE That cowboy look - the hat and the bandana - that's not a fashion statement. That clothing is pu...
ETHAN COEN I have never had feeling in my toes. My uncle, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, once told me in confidence h...
ETHAN COEN Payrolls were well below the whisper number, so there's been a big sigh of relief in the market,
ETHAN HARRIS I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I d...
ETHAN HAWKE Dave Van Ronk, for those who don't know him - probably most don't know - was a folk singer. ...
ETHAN COEN Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous r...
ETHAN COEN There's no locality on the web - every market is a global market.
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN I've lived a lot in the last 12 years or however long its been since Boy Meets World. I have a l...
ETHAN SUPLEE I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably.
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN This large inflow is an important prop for the Treasury market, helping keep yields in their current...
ETHAN HARRIS If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and rea...
ETHAN HAWKE If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I m...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN You can't think about things you want to change. Just be yourself.
ETHAN EMBRY The older I get, the more I realize how rare it is to meet a kindred spirit.
ETHAN HAWKE While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of ...
ETHAN ALLEN Cisco has sort of straddled the fence with working with Microsoft. This is another approach that mov...
ETHAN SIMMONS The Gore campaign has got to be worried.
ETHAN SIEGAL Nothing teaches you like getting leveled. And I got leveled in my early 30s. Nothing went exactly th...
ETHAN HAWKE Increasingly, I'm inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN This large inflow is an important prop for the Treasury market, helping keep yields in their current...
ETHAN HARRIS I feel very lucky. The older I get, the more I see how random everything is, the luckier I feel to h...
ETHAN PECK It's a natural add-on to services that we're already providing. Video is just another application yo...
ETHAN SIMMONS I was the first one in my group to get married. Now I've split up, they're all married. They're like...
ETHAN HAWKE I auditioned for Robert Redford once and I was so starstruck I couldn't even speak. I had a mic ...
ETHAN HAWKE While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place ...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN We used to watch the muscle movies on Saturday matinees, such as 'Hercules Unchained.' Then ...
ETHAN COEN I know I want to help people and inspire people. That's my purpose in life.
ETHAN ZOHN You can't think about things you want to change. Just be yourself.
ETHAN EMBRY My dad's more of a pusher. (Mark) is more individual.
ETHAN DICKSON The fact of just being there was phenomenal.
ETHAN RUSSELL In the big oil shocks that really damaged the economy, the tax on the consumer was many times more t...
ETHAN HARRIS The consumer is already somewhat vulnerable in the year ahead as the tax-cut effects fade. If we con...
ETHAN HARRIS Fed officials ... likely anticipated some fallout in fixed income markets, ... We believe ... that F...
ETHAN HARRIS I think what people will see is that commentary from Fed officials will sound almost identical to th...
ETHAN HARRIS We don't change our personal consumption forecasts around [the Michigan sentiment index]. But it's a...
ETHAN HARRIS We've been trying to see whether the improvement of the economy and financial market will carry the ...
ETHAN HARRIS Real estate is a topic that has vaulted to center stage, ... The real reason the topic is hot and be...
ETHAN HARRIS There's definitely going to be nervousness around the event and a kind of inertia. My wife has alrea...
ETHAN HARRIS Their idols were not pop stars but blues singers. Those idols were old already. So why would they no...
ETHAN RUSSELL He may prove to be totally innocent, but this is a negative -- a big distraction -- for his presiden...
ETHAN SIEGAL This is another of these little hints that we won't get a strong employment number on Friday.
ETHAN HARRIS Net net, we think the risks are tilted toward a surprisingly strong gain in [Friday's] report,
ETHAN HARRIS We needed 20 percent economic growth in the third quarter to get rid of all of the excess capacity i...
ETHAN HARRIS You may not be able to change the world, but you can always change somones world.
ETHAN GARV** I'm really into whatever comes my way, really, and never plan what I want to do, but I'll always tak...
ETHAN EMBRY I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world.
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN The retail sales report is a little bit misleading,
ETHAN HARRIS Now the tough decisions arrive.
ETHAN HARRIS Our feeling is that because you have a new central banker, they are going to want to err on the side...
ETHAN HARRIS Learning from your heroes increases your information retention. And these soccer players in Africa a...
ETHAN ZOHN It opened people's eyes to what's happening in a place that people forget about and tend to brush of...
ETHAN ZOHN It'll be the largest collection of reality winners in one place ever, I can promise you that.
ETHAN ZOHN I hope that when you leave here today you will have the knowledge of who you are and the challenges ...
ETHAN ZOHN I wake up in a different state every day, but that's important to me.
ETHAN ZOHN I'm still involved with the Vassar community and it's important to me to stay involved.
ETHAN ZOHN I knew I only had 15 minutes of fame, so I wanted to be sure I did something good with it,
ETHAN ZOHN I think that his performance on that song is a real tribute to Bonham.
ETHAN IVERSON We think the ISM services number is one of the worst monthly pieces of data there are. On a month-to...
ETHAN HARRIS Real love is more than a physical feeling. If there's even the slightest doubt in your head about a ...
ETHAN EMBRY We knew when we started this band that a lot of our appeal was going to be in the teen market. We kn...
ETHAN MENTZER It's the old proverb: 'It is better to give than to receive.' Without knowing it, I had brought alon...
ETHAN ZOHN While the Fed is more than one person, Mr. Greenspan's retirement means less confidence in the Fed, ...
ETHAN HARRIS It was hard to comprehend. We weren't expecting make it to the final. After it was over, we were sho...
ETHAN DICKSON Private polls have shown that his endorsement has actually moved votes.
ETHAN GETO We took two steps forward with the reforms in December, and one more step yesterday. But we still ha...
ETHAN NADELMANN The Exorcist doesn't get me, but The Omen does.
ETHAN EMBRY Now you are entering a much more uncertain period.
ETHAN HARRIS In New York, you've got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and they...
ETHAN HAWKE Some people assume I'm a spoilt trust fund kid who's never had to work for anything, while o...
ETHAN PECK In 'True Grit,' we had a vulture, a trained vulture... that was a pain and that was - even b...
ETHAN COEN I can imagine Iceland becoming a good place to run a controversial Web site. But... Iceland may find...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN Real love is more than a physical feeling. If there's even the slightest doubt in your head abou...
ETHAN EMBRY I remember being a kid and sleeping over at my friend's house and staying up late and watching &...
ETHAN HAWKE The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to shar...
ETHAN HAWKE When there's so much freedom - financially and otherwise - smart kids get themselves into troubl...
ETHAN PECK When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and ...
ETHAN HAWKE My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it an...
ETHAN HAWKE We needed 20 percent economic growth in the third quarter to get rid of all of the excess capacity i...
ETHAN HARRIS I didn't even know that malls even had shows.
ETHAN MENTZER It's difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesn't matter if you're talking vampire ...
ETHAN HAWKE I'm horrified to admit that I just love Salinger. I was devastated to find out that other people...
ETHAN HAWKE Soccer is my life.
ETHAN ZOHN It can be a bit overwhelming, but it's a great overview of the conversations taking place in and aro...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN We are trying to do a transfer of technology that allows people to express themselves without taking...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within th...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN Because no appointments need to be made until the end of this semester, not having a database now do...
ETHAN UCKER The point of an election is to evaluate someone's performance — my performance as appointments chai...
ETHAN UCKER Fortunately, the system I had set up allowed room for this lag. But all that has now been worked out...
ETHAN UCKER Appointments chair is a position with an unreasonably disproportionate amount of power.
ETHAN UCKER When [the special election] happened and I had to make the choice to run again, I realized that I di...
ETHAN UCKER The problem, as I see it, [is that] I was unfortunately not committed enough to Student Council at t...
ETHAN UCKER We saw products in use that were pretty impressive. There was a lot of new stuff on the presence-man...
ETHAN SIMMONS If the Fed continues to raise interest rates, it puts a damper on the spirits of voters and consumer...
ETHAN SIEGAL To be elected president, Al Gore needs the economy and the markets firing on all cylinders. Al Gore ...
ETHAN SIEGAL If there is one you had to single out, it would be Lennon.
ETHAN RUSSELL What I think I do well, ... is capture real moments with extraordinary people.
ETHAN RUSSELL He is beloved for his integrity as an artist. I think that matters.
ETHAN RUSSELL I was really happy with our defense in the first half, but we just couldn't get the jumpers to drop....
ETHAN ROE During that stretch, we just went to a motion offense. We stopped calling plays, and we just let the...
ETHAN ROE If you expect to go somewhere, then you should be able to beat anybody. Sometimes, you get a better ...
ETHAN ROE Their defense was great. They gave us one shot and we were done. We were not patient enough.
ETHAN ROE It's a good step in our confidence. We really had poise the past two nights. When things started to ...
ETHAN ROE If there's one thing the international community should do, if only out of deference because he won ...
ETHAN NADELMANN The entire war on drugs disproportionately targets poor people and people of color.
ETHAN NADELMANN The best news in this year's report is the significant decline in cigarette smoking, not just becaus...
ETHAN NADELMANN What happened in California provides a powerful model. It is extremely likely that there will be oth...
ETHAN NADELMANN This place has something special.
ETHAN MULLER It is a real ski experience, it is a real ski town.
ETHAN MULLER I have been to a lot of ski town across the U.S. And this place truly is unique.
ETHAN MULLER I'm probably looking to be back in back in Edmonton.
ETHAN MOREAU We're going to do some damage.
ETHAN MOREAU It's ridiculous. There's no excuse for it.
ETHAN MOREAU