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“Writing is difficult enough without adding the imperative to evolve into the writer you wish you were.”
“Without fiction, we can’t know any particulars of the home for which he yearns.”
“ It’s helped by the fact that I have, for some time, believed that major versus minor isn’t the most revealing way of distinguishing these books from those books.”
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“It has something to do with explicating the world to myself by explicating it to others.”
“Different writers do it for different reasons, but I suspect that a romantic relationship to reality is common to all of us.”
“ I learned, during my period as a wannabe painter, that your arm and hand move in arcs of different sizes.”
“Literary Hub » Michael Cunningham on the Question of Scale in Writing Literary Hub Craft and Criticism Literary Criticism Craft and Advice In Conversation On Translation Fiction and Poetry Short Story From the Novel Poem News and Culture History Science Politics Biography Memoir Food Technology Bookstores and Libraries Film and TV Travel Music Art and Photography The Hub Style Design Sports Become A Member Lit Hub Radio The Lit Hub Podcast Awakeners Fiction/Non/Fiction The Critic and Her Publics Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast Memoir Nation Beyond the Page First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing Thresholds The Cosmic Library Culture Schlock Reading Lists Reading Challenge Book Marks Best Reviewed Books CrimeReads True Crime The Daily Thrill Log In Craft and Criticism Fiction and Poetry News and Culture Lit Hub Radio Reading Lists Reading Challenge Book Marks CrimeReads Log In Michael Cunningham on the Question of Scale in Writing “It’s only a question of whether you’re looking through a telescope or a microscope.“ Via The Craft of Writing Michael Cunningham July 24, 2026 This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter— sign up here .”
“It’s only a question of whether you’re looking through a telescope or a microscope.”
“I don’t really see on an epic scale, not in the way of Tolstoy and Morrison and García Márquez.”
“Choose a soldier, huddled in the storm, still imagining that he might—might—survive, and get home again.”
“We wouldn’t know that the soldier, who’s been undecided about his girlfriend, intends to propose to her almost immediately after he walks through the door.”
“The former painter produces large paintings, the latter produces small ones.”
“It’s like trying to drive a nail into a pool of mercury.”
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“Michael Cunningham Random House The Craft of Writing Unsayable Virginia Woolf writing advice Michael Cunningham Michael Cunningham is the author of the novels A Home at the End of the World , Flesh and Blood , The Hours (winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award & Pulitzer Prize), The Snow Queen , Specimen Days , and By Nightfall , A Wild Swan and Other Tales (illustrated by Yuko Shimizu), as well as the non-fiction book, Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown .”