“I was born in Ann Arbor. I lived for a while in Ohio; Pennsylvania, Ca...” — Ethan Canin Quote

“I was born in Ann Arbor. I lived for a while in Ohio; Pennsylvania, California for 10 years, and now in Boston. And I lived in Iowa for a couple of years, where I studied at the Writers Workshop.”

“Books were king, but now movies are king, and books are sort of ignored. So now there's no sense of a welcoming community where you live.”

“'How does your life turn out?' That's the ultimate novelistic question to me.”

“Boston is the cream of the crop of the marathon world. It has such history that you feel such honor just being a part of it. All the other races have pacers to get you to a Boston qualifying time.”

“I invested in the 'Globe' because it is one of the best and most important news organizations in the world. We saw this vividly in the days and weeks after the tragic Boston Marathon bombings, and we also see it in many other ways every day.”

“We want Boston to be the safest bicycling city.”