The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world...? — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I took comfort, as a kid, in knowing that things had always been as awful and as wonderful as they were now,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
He comes to this other world and he has to reinvent himself. Again, it felt natural, even though I'd been working really… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The world like our heads was meant to be escaped from, they are prisons world and head alike. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. Every golem in the history of the world, from Rabbi Hanina's delectable goat to… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Art is a form of exploration, of sailing off into the unknown alone, heading for those unmarked places on the map. If… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Rueful, bittersweet, funny, written with tenderness and bite, Merrill Feitell's stories, like so many classic short stories, are made from the plain… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
[I]n 1938, Superman appeared. He had been mailed to the offices of National Periodical Publications from Cleveland, by a couple of Jewish… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Along the way, he or she discovers that the world has been broken for as long as anyone can remember. Everyone, sooner… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
All the preparation in the world doesn't avail you if you can't make that imaginative leap and put yourself in the position… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
...Landsman doesn't buy that. Bina never stopped wanting to redeem the world. She just let the world she was trying to redeem… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I might spend 100 pages trying to get to know the world I'm writing about: its contours, who are my main characters,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
It was the kind of promise a father makes easily and sincerely, knowing at the same time that it will be impossible… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
When I first decided I wanted to be a writer, when I was 10, 11 years old, the books that I loved… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I feel that in the past, my style has shown itself to be capable of handling dark and light in the same… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share
“Anyway, it's a pretty good story," I said. "You have to admit." "Yeah?" He crumpled up the Kleenex, having dispatched the solitary tear. "You… — Michael Chabon Copy Share
There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would… — Michael Chabon Copy Share
“Badass.'" My grandfather sampled the flavor of the word. It did not seem to revolt him, but it was nothing he needed ever to… — Michael Chabon Copy Share
See you in the funny papers," he said. Jaunty, he reminded himself; always jaunty. In my panache is their hope for salvation. — Michael Chabon Copy Share
“I didn't want to be left alone with Timothy, not because I was afraid of him but because I was afraid that somebody would… — Michael Chabon Copy Share
“He had already seized this particular day once, but he was prepared, if need be, to go ahead and seize the motherfucker all over… — Michael Chabon Copy Share
“We figure he must have let him out. The perpetrator, I mean. He's blind and we figure he just wandered off and maybe got… — Michael Chabon Copy Share
“Then I reminded myself that I was always willing to listen to arguments in favor of avoiding an unpleasant chore, and I shook my… — Michael Chabon Copy Share
“Love great first lines and paragraphs. From The Yiddish Policemen's Union: Nine months Landsman's been flopping at the Hotel Zamenhof without any of his… — Michael Chabon Copy Share
“Life blew in gusts from the hole in the side of the elephant with a rank smell and a comic flatulence.” — Michael Chabon Copy Share
Not only would I never want to belong to any club that would have me for a member--if elected I would wear street shoes… — Michael Chabon Copy Share
That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution. — Michael Chabon Copy Share
Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere, living at… — Michael Chabon Copy Share
“For as long as I could remember, I'd been making vague and confident assurances that any day I would finish the thing [my book].… — Michael Chabon Copy Share
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