Fiction Quotes by Michael Chabon

9 Fiction quotes by Michael Chabon

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Michael Chabon’s voice bursts with literary playfulness and depth, turning ordinary moments into larger‑than‑life scenes. These nine snippets give a quick taste of his knack for blending genre tricks with heartfelt insight.

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“Accurate prediction of the future, of its technologies and traumas, has always seemed to me to be the least interesting thing about…

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“Other than along certain emotional tangents there was little in the book that felt as if it had actually been lived. It…

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Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere,…

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“I’m always thrilled,” wrote Alan Cheuse, emphasizing the novelty and, perhaps, the faint air of slumming that attends the notion of McCarthy’s…

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I hate to see great works of literature ghettoized, whereas others that conform to the rules, conventions, and procedures of the genre…

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I do have a collection of mid-century, small-press science fiction and fantasy hardcovers that is my most focused and dedicated collection. Everything…

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“He has the memory of a convict, the balls of a fireman, and the eyesight of a housebreaker. When there is crime…

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I have confused ideas of deity, heavily influenced by mind-altering years of reading science fiction, that do not often trouble me, but…

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All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction…Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the…

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“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…

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“Badass.'" My grandfather sampled the flavor of the word. It did not seem to revolt him, but it was nothing he needed ever to…

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See you in the funny papers," he said. Jaunty, he reminded himself; always jaunty. In my panache is their hope for salvation.

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“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…

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“He had already seized this particular day once, but he was prepared, if need be, to go ahead and seize the motherfucker all over…

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“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…

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“Then I reminded myself that I was always willing to listen to arguments in favor of avoiding an unpleasant chore, and I shook my…

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“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…

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“Life blew in gusts from the hole in the side of the elephant with a rank smell and a comic flatulence.”

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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…

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That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.

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Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere, living at…

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“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].…

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