Michael Cunningham Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• ..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.

  Michael Cunningham

  Sight, Names, Secret

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.12, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

• 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.

  Michael Cunningham

  Should Have, Fiction, Delight

  "Found in Translation". Article by Michael Cunningham, www.nytimes.com. October 2, 2010.

• 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 resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions.

  Michael Cunningham

  Way, Firsts, Language

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