Michael Cunningham Quotes

A collection of quotes by Michael Cunningham.

Michael Cunningham is a renowned American author, born on November 6, 1952. He is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Hours," which was adapted into an award-winning film. Cunningham's works often explore themes of identity, sexuality, and the human condition. He has written several other critically acclaimed novels, including "A Home at the End of the World," "Specimen Days," and "By Nightfall." With his poignant storytelling and lyrical prose, Cunningham remains a prominent figure in contemporary literature.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can mana

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

Michael Cunningham

Life On Fiction Writing

I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well

I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me there, in some unguessable other place. His move from life to death might resemble my stepping into the kitchen - into its soft nowhere quality and foggy hum. I breathed the dark air. If I had at that moment a sense of calm kindly death while my heart beat and my lungs expanded, he might know a similar sense of life in the middle of his ongoing death.

Michael Cunningham

Life Death Love Brothers Glbtq

I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the r

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

Michael Cunningham

Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are s

Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

Michael Cunningham

Life Death Inspirational

Julian is bluff and sturdy, royal; he possesses a gracefully

Julian is bluff and sturdy, royal; he possesses a gracefully muscular, equine beauty so natural it suggests that beauty itself is a fundamental human condition and not a mutation in the general design.

Michael Cunningham

Beauty is a whore, I like money better.

Beauty is a whore, I like money better.

Michael Cunningham

Life Money Beauty Absurd

This love of theirs, with its reassuring domesticity and its

This love of theirs, with its reassuring domesticity and its easy silences, its permanence, has yoked Sally directly to the machinery of mortality itself. Now there is a loss beyond imagining.

Michael Cunningham

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

Michael Cunningham

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

Michael Cunningham

On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside wit

On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.

Michael Cunningham