A Quote by Ethan Canin

What's more interesting than the arc of lives?

Ethan Canin

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Ethan Canin
American - Author
Born: July 19, 1960

All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner.

Mavis Gallant

Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world creates a change in the character, usually for the better. To not have an arc, the messages and ideas in the film became more prominent.

Dan Gilroy

Marxists are more right than wrong when they argue that the problems scientists take up,. the way they go about solving them, and even the solutions they arc inclined to accept, arc conditioned by the intellectual, social, and economic environments in which they live and work.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

One of the interesting things about the ancient Greeks is that they really didn't have our conception of individual rights. They didn't have our conception of all lives matters. And it was really was true for them, that certain lives matter a lot more than others. It didn't dawn on them that all lives, although different, can be lives of equal mattering. And that is actually something a huge ethical lesson.

Rebecca Goldstein

Other people's lives are so much more interesting than one's own.

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

More often than not, whenever gossip has been written about me, the gossip is more interesting than the reality. I know some public figures hate gossip, but personally I like it because it makes my life sound more glamorous and interesting than it really is.

Moby

I could always imagine more interesting places to be than where I was. And more interesting people than me being there. Eventually, this led to making up stories and writing things down.

Susanna Clarke

The life of the mind is always more interesting than the real. The idea is often more interesting than the actual.

Rob Chapman

I can think of a number of things more interesting to read about than tax law, but few things affect our lives more.

Mike Crapo

I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.

Ruta Sepetys

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.

Monica Johnson

Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.

A. E. Housman

Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier it is.

William Lyon Phelps

There's no such thing as a normal life. Some lives are just more interesting than others, and we shouldn't judge people for being boring.

Mira Grant

Of course the rich and famous tend to have more going on in their lives than ordinary people, but they aren't always willing to tell the interesting bits.