Michael Cunningham Quotes

• There is a beauty in the world, though it’s harsher than we expect it to be.

  Michael Cunningham

  Topics in Beauty

• This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.

  Michael Cunningham

  Topics in Life

• I don’t think two people could have been happier than we have been.

  Michael Cunningham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Romance, Happiness

• Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

  Michael Cunningham

  Topics in Inspirational

• Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

  Michael Cunningham

  Topics in Life

• 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

• 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

• 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 encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture it might seem, because I’ve learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself.

  Michael Cunningham

• 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

• 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

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

  Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham (12)

Birth:	6th November, 1952
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

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Today's Anniversary - 29th March

Births

• 1916 - Eugene McCarthy
• 1927 - Martin Fleischmann
• 1931 - Norman Tebbit
• 1958 - Victor Salva
• 1961 - Michael Winterbottom

Deaths

• 2005 - Mitch Hedberg
• 1970 - Vera Brittain
• 1934 - Otto Hermann Kahn
• 1982 - Nathan F Twining
• 1878 - Mark Hopkins Jr.