Michael Cunningham
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"Michael Cunningham" is an United States/American writer. He is best known for his 1998 novel The Hours (novel)/The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999. Cunningham is a senior lecturer of creative writing at Yale University.

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We know the Bay Area will be hit by a major quake some time in the next few decades, and we are one of the top terrorist targets. Transportation around the area is hindered by (San Francisco Bay) but we can turn that into an advantage by efficient use of our ferry system.

I think great poetry is enormously powerful.

It's like a light went off right at that moment, ... I could see my project. I knew I had something. I literally started working on it that next day.

The worst are full of passionate intensity while the best lack all conviction.

Like any powerful creation, can be used in a number of ways... in this book, which chronicles various dissolutions and breakages, there is still Walt Whitman, the dogged optimist.

I'm sure there are any number of Hollywood producers who option novels and think, 'maybe this would make a good opera.

But Scott is the only one I've met.

People worked seven days for 12-14 hours, there was no regulation of any kind - there were no trash pick-ups, there were dead horses lying in the streets - and through all of this walked our great American whirling dervish, Walt Whitman, saying 'I find it all to my taste, I find it all miraculous and strange, and yes, even beautiful'.

It has not been given adequate funding. It lacks all of the tools it needs, so this is an effort to revive this program.