“I'm becoming more of a novelist as I get older. The novel just seems t...” — Ethan Canin Quote

“I'm becoming more of a novelist as I get older. The novel just seems the truer form. There's less artifice involved.”

“I still don't know whether I know how to write a sentence.”

“You don't idea your way into a plot but plot your way into an idea.”

“I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.”

“Fiction accesses a certain kind of truth through artifice. I love to create worlds that operate on their own terms.”

“So you might say, 'Why do you end up making theatre in a world in which there is already too much of that? Creating layer upon layer of artifice?' Perhaps the function is to pierce through that cloud and show reality - so the function of art is to make things - to show: 'Hang on, this is real.'”