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
bottomless good interest
and didn't feel especially good at it but did feel a kind of bottomless interest in the process, which has never ceased.
creation dogged number powerful various walt
Like any powerful creation, can be used in a number of ways... in this book, which chronicles various dissolutions and breakages, there is still Walt Whitman, the dogged optimist.
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.
difference entitled equally great impulse perfect remove trying
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.
stories
we become the stories we tell ourselves
sensations
She is overtaken by a sensation of unbeing. There is no other word for it.
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?
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.
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.