Michael Cunningham Quotes

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

Like any powerful creation, can be used in a number of ways... in this book, which chronicles various dissolutions and breakages, there is still Walt Whitman, the dogged optimist. - 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

It's like a light went off right at that moment... I could see my project. I knew I had something. I literally started working on it that next day. - Michael Cunningham

It has not been given adequate funding. It lacks all of the tools it needs, so this is an effort to revive this program. - Michael Cunningham

I'm sure there are any number of Hollywood producers who option novels and think, 'maybe this would make a good opera. - Michael Cunningham

I'm a remarkably unremarkable person. - Michael Cunningham

If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book again, but as if you've never read it. And when you get something unfamiliar, you feel betrayed. - Michael Cunningham

I'd have liked to tell him something I'd taken almost 60 years to learn: that we owe the dead even less than we owe the living, that our only chance of happiness - a small enough chance - lay in welcoming change. - Michael Cunningham

I think of the people who commit these acts as children. They're in their 20s, but like certain children, they have been told only one story, over and over. Like most children, they believe in an easily identifiable good and evil, and like most children, they are capable of unthinkable cruelty. - Michael Cunningham

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