Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham is an American author and screenwriter. He is best known for his 1998 novel The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999. Cunningham is a senior lecturer of creative writing at Yale University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth6 November 1952
CountryUnited States of America
Michael Cunningham quotes about
should-have fiction delight
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.
ink-and-paper paper ink
Sure, go ahead, simulate life, using only ink and paper.
love-and-marriage theory
I have no useful theories about love and marriage.
visionaries immigrants
Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become?
love-is want mystery
Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?
stars moving silly
Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.
summer night lovely
On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.
movie-love television narrative
I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds.
adore please
Please, God, send me something to adore.
worry wrong-things
We always worry about the wrong things, don't we?
sight names secret
..this indiscriminate love feels entirely serious to her, as if everything in the world is part of a vast, inscrutable intention and everything in the world has its own secret name, a name that cannot be conveyed in language but is simply the sight and feel of the thing itself.
kind possession command
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.
kindness believe tired
These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.
witch bohemian certain
a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm