When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still make the… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
But the first lie in the series is the one you make with the greatest trepidation and the heaviest heart. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I thought, I fanced, that in a moment, I would be standing on nothing at all, and for the first time in… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
It took Marvel Comics years to begin to put together any worthwhile superheroines. The first crop was, to a gal, embarrassingly disappointing.… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I’m a man who falls in love so easily, and with such reckless lack of consideration for the consequences of my actions,… — 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
Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
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
The first and last duty of the lover of the game of baseball," Peavine's book began, "whether in the stands or on… — 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
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
