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
equivalent fabulous form free human life nearest seemed simply star
A movie star seemed simply like the nearest equivalent we've got, we who live blessedly free of a monarchy, to that sense of the human form exalted, the life made fabulous simply by who and what the person is.
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and didn't feel especially good at it but did feel a kind of bottomless interest in the process, which has never ceased.
But Scott is the only one I've met.
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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.
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I'm sure there are any number of Hollywood producers who option novels and think, 'maybe this would make a good opera,
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the worst are full of passionate intensity while the best lack all conviction.
men want accepting
Accept that, like many men, you have a streak of the homoerotic in you. Why would you, why would anyone, want to be that straight?
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I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
lying thinking two
People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.
thinking two people
What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me & incredibly good. I want to say that - everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
thinking two people
I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
book reading writing
One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.
thinking ideas differences
I am beginning to understand the true difference between youth and age. Young people have time to make plans and think of new ideas. Older people need their whole energy to keep up with what’s already been set in motion.
writing optimistic thinking
I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act.