“People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh." [ Afterword ]” — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
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 Image
Writers, unlike most people, tell their best lies when they are alone. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
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
I don't do a lot of foisting, because when it comes to books I don't really like to be foisted upon. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
A true storyteller is really good at writing himself into a corner and then finding a way out of that corner — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely... Having a big family solves that problem. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Other than along certain emotional tangents there was little in the book that felt as if it had actually been lived. It… — 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
The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I'm never going to be a Tom Clancy. And I wouldn't really want to be - not that I have anything against… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“It holds my essential stuff, including a book—for true contentment, one must carry a book at all times, and great books so… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially… — 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
“This was the writer's true doppelgänger, I thought; not some invisible imp of the perverse who watched you from the shadows, periodically… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I don't think you could teach someone to be a genius, but you can certainly teach them to not make rookie mistakes… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Maybe all wondrous books appear in our lives the way Milo’s tollbooth appears, an inexplicable gift, cast up by some curious chance… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
For me, the goal is always to write a novel that I myself would like to read. People frequently ask me what… — 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
“I have come to see this fear, this sense of my own imperilment by my creations, as not only an inevitable, necessary… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I do my writing in the morning, now, if the boy will let me, and in the afternoon when I’m not teaching,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how… — 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
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