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
stars moving silly
Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.
grateful trying world
Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.
enemy dresses young
You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore; because you dress unexceptionally.
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.
hero thinking virginia
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.
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.
nice weekend vexation
Any other vexations to report?" he asks. "I love the word 'vexations.'" "It's the 'x.' Nice to jump off a 'v' and bite into an 'x' like that." "Just the usual ones," she says. "How was the weekend?" "Vexing. Not really, I just wanted to say it. You?
house would-be insomniac
Insomniacs know better than anyone how it would be to haunt a house.
worry wrong-things
We always worry about the wrong things, don't we?
running real entering
. . . he felt himself entering a moment so real he could only run toward it, shouting.
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.