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21 quotes by Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is an American writer. 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.
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I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

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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... →

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A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he's any good, is not an... →

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I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture it might seem... →

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I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely... →

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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... →

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Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the... →

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Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high... →

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As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby Dick'... →

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As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

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I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

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I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.

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I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds.

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