Joseph Kanon
Joseph Kanon
Joseph Kanonis an American author, best known for thriller and spy novels set in the period immediately after World War II...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
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This is the great crisis in Western culture; there's nothing comparable to it. How it could have happened, the level of responsibility that people take for it, I think, is still the great issue.
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Perhaps history and distance and time enable us to face things that nobody particularly wanted to look at at the time, but it's very important that all of this be known. How did this happen?
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One of the things that's always interested me, from the first book on, is unintended consequences,
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This must be I guess the most extreme form of unintended consequence, but it seemed to me a great metaphor for things that happen all the time.
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I like the busy-ness of office life. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that I love the solitary nature of writing. What happens is that you write when you're ready.
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Venice was always one step removed from what was going on. If you were in Turin or in Milan or one of the industrial centers, you would have had a much more active political constituency. Venice essentially lived for itself.
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When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer.
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At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does.
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I think most writers' houses are disappointing. What's much more atmospheric and interesting are the places they wrote about.
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Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition with his writer.
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You know the sultans used to light their garden parties with turtles? They'd put candles on their backs and let them wander around. Hundreds of them.