Top 7 Joseph Kanon Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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.”

— Joseph Kanon

2. “When you’re editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer.”

— Joseph Kanon

3. “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.”

— Joseph Kanon

4. “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.”

— Joseph Kanon

5. “He was the first young man Alex had met since he arrived, all the others buried or missing, irretrievable. Then a few dragging steps and Alex saw why: a Goebbels clubfoot had kept him out of war.”

— Joseph Kanon

6. “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.”

— Joseph Kanon

7. “Life is like that, don’t you think? Mostly bad choices. All you can do is keep your balance between them.”

— Joseph Kanon

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