--- title: "13 Kind Quotes By Dan Chaon" description: "13 Kind quotes by Dan Chaon. Plus more from Dan Chaon and more Kind sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b46/dan-chaon-2729_all-kinds_there-are-all-kinds-of-strange-threads-i_429125.jpg" --- > [There are all kinds of strange threads in American culture, and places where sympathy is extended and places where it isn't, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chaon/there-are-all-kinds-of-strange-threads-in-american-culture-and-places/) [Dan Chaon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chaon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b46/dan-chaon-2729_all-kinds_there-are-all-kinds-of-strange-threads-i_429125.jpg) > [A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chaon/a-novel-requires-a-certain-kind-of-world-building-and-also-a-certain-2/) [Dan Chaon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chaon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e7/dan-chaon-2729_books_a-novel-requires-a-certain-kind-of-world_2663796.jpg) > [Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chaon/our-sense-of-self-is-a-kind-of-construct-it-is-in-some-ways-like-a/) [Dan Chaon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chaon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b36/dan-chaon-2729_constructs_our-sense-of-self-is-a-kind-of-construct_2740849.png) > [It's not like it ruined my life, I was going to say, but then I didn't. Because it occurred to me that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chaon/it-s-not-like-it-ruined-my-life-i-was-going-to-say-but-then-i-didn-t/) [Dan Chaon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chaon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfa/dan-chaon-2729_kind_it-s-not-like-it-ruined-my-life-i-was-go_1798948.png) > [A novel requires a certain kind of world building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chaon/a-novel-requires-a-certain-kind-of-world-building-and-also-a-certain/) [Dan Chaon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chaon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/021/dan-chaon-2729_books_a-novel-requires-a-certain-kind-of-world_853300.png) > [A lot of time, with stories, I'll start out with a title and try to dream myself into the story that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chaon/a-lot-of-time-with-stories-i-ll-start-out-with-a-title-and-try-to/) [Dan Chaon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chaon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f3/dan-chaon-2729_dream_a-lot-of-time-with-stories-i-ll-start-ou_719331.png) > [I love to write when I feel like everybody else is asleep and when I feel like the world is kind of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chaon/i-love-to-write-when-i-feel-like-everybody-else-is-asleep-and-when-i/) [Dan Chaon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chaon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbc/dan-chaon-2729_empty_i-love-to-write-when-i-feel-like-everybo_542804.png) > [Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chaon/fiction-is-a-particular-kind-of-rhetoric-a-way-of-thinking-that-i/) [Dan Chaon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chaon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/275/dan-chaon-2729_asks_fiction-is-a-particular-kind-of-rhetoric_493841.png) > [I have to admit that 'Psychology Today' was one of the first magazines I started reading, back when I was 13 or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chaon/i-have-to-admit-that-psychology-today-was-one-of-the-first-magazines/) [Dan Chaon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chaon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/899/dan-chaon-2729_curious_i-have-to-admit-that-psychology-today-wa_2818577.png) > [Writing short stories was kind of like I was cheating the whole time, in some way. I went back and forth between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chaon/writing-short-stories-was-kind-of-like-i-was-cheating-the-whole-time/) [Dan Chaon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chaon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b9e/dan-chaon-2729_books_writing-short-stories-was-kind-of-like-i_1739998.png) > [I wanted to write a horror story. But in some ways, I have always thought of myself as a kind of ghost-story/horror…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chaon/i-wanted-to-write-a-horror-story-but-in-some-ways-i-have-always/) [Dan Chaon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chaon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d0c/dan-chaon-2729_ghost_i-wanted-to-write-a-horror-story-but-in_3037095.png) > [The kind of person I find myself interested in is a cross between being very emotionally complex and very immature. That's what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chaon/the-kind-of-person-i-find-myself-interested-in-is-a-cross-between/) [Dan Chaon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chaon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1fa/dan-chaon-2729_complexes_the-kind-of-person-i-find-myself-interes_2930115.png) > [When I was younger I was attracted to people who had that kind of artifice - people who were incredibly polished and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chaon/when-i-was-younger-i-was-attracted-to-people-who-had-that-kind-of/) [Dan Chaon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chaon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/422/dan-chaon-2729_artifice_when-i-was-younger-i-was-attracted-to-pe_1576288.jpg) ## Other authors on Kind ## More by Dan Chaon > [“Maybe love, like suffering, is relative. ”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chaon/maybe-love-like-suffering-is-relative/) [Dan Chaon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chaon/) > [Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chaon/even-when-our-death-is-imminent-we-carry-the-image-of-ourselves/) [Dan Chaon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chaon/) > [For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chaon/for-the-last-few-years-i-ve-tried-to-force-myself-to-write-at-least/) [Dan Chaon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chaon/) > [“It's hard to believe that this is how it's done. That this is how we get here into the world, by accident or design,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chaon/it-s-hard-to-believe-that-this-is-how-it-s-done-that-this-is-how-we/) [Dan Chaon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chaon/) > [I also have just my own limits about stuff. I'm not interested in writing graphically about sexual assault for example. I feel like the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chaon/i-also-have-just-my-own-limits-about-stuff-i-m-not-interested-in/) [Dan Chaon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chaon/) > [“I have to admit that most of the time I read in the same way that I smoke and chew gum and jiggle my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chaon/i-have-to-admit-that-most-of-the-time-i-read-in-the-same-way-that-i/) [Dan Chaon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chaon/) > [“Outside, the sleet had gotten thicker. You could hear it pebbling against the large glass windows, you could see it swirling wildly through the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chaon/outside-the-sleet-had-gotten-thicker-you-could-hear-it-pebbling/) [Dan Chaon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chaon/) > [I was worried that, as a college teacher, if I wrote too much about intergenerational sex my students would be creeped out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chaon/i-was-worried-that-as-a-college-teacher-if-i-wrote-too-much-about/) [Dan Chaon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chaon/) > [Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chaon/plot-and-scene-are-still-the-hardest-things-for-me-though-i-think/) [Dan Chaon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chaon/) > [“I've been talking to myself a lot lately. I don't know what that's about, but my mother was the same way. She hated to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chaon/i-ve-been-talking-to-myself-a-lot-lately-i-don-t-know-what-that-s/) [Dan Chaon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chaon/) > [“Your Mom's Car. Think about that. Try to wrap your brain around the supernatural and spiritual implications that the name bears down you. Your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chaon/your-mom-s-car-think-about-that-try-to-wrap-your-brain-around-the/) [Dan Chaon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chaon/) > [“He pictures amputated human arms flopping like fish down the center of the road; syringes floating on beds of liposuctioned fat; gelatinous human eyeballs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chaon/he-pictures-amputated-human-arms-flopping-like-fish-down-the-center/) [Dan Chaon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chaon/) > [“In the basement of Sydney's new house is a little room that is about the size and shape of a coffin.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chaon/in-the-basement-of-sydney-s-new-house-is-a-little-room-that-is-about/) [Dan Chaon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chaon/) > [“It’s called apophenia. It’s the tendency we humans have to find meaning in disconnected information. For example, some people believe in what’s called the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chaon/it-s-called-apophenia-it-s-the-tendency-we-humans-have-to-find/) [Dan Chaon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chaon/) > [I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chaon/i-would-say-that-all-short-stories-have-mystery-naturally-built-into/) [Dan Chaon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chaon/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/kind/dan-chaon/#itemlist", "name": "13 Kind Quotes By Dan Chaon", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There are all kinds of strange threads in American culture, and places where sympathy is extended and places where it isn't, and places where outrage is extended and places where it's not. 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