Michael Cunningham

I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#feel #i #interested #just #lifestyles

I have no useful theories about love and marriage. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#i #love #marriage #theories #useful

Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#being #being honest #book #finished #here

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#must #opening #our #readers #sentence

Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high school, when I was 15 years old. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#almost #book #ever #first #great

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

#ear #engage #equal #fiction #inner

A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he's any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#benign #certain #cruel #disregard #entirely

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#anybody #book #first #first kiss #great

I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#every #i #novel #once #produce

I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#i love #kinds #love #movies #narratives