All Dan Chaon Quotes
- Fiction is fun because you get to steal an identity and try to make it authentic. Authentic
- I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once -- I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on… Abandoning
- Here is the door of my mom's house, well-remembered childhood portal. Here is the yard, and a set of wires that runs from the house… Abacus
- Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture… Another Perspective
- A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense… Building
- I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them. All
- Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that… Construct
- The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids. Been
- Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image… Actually Experienced
- 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 it's… Actually Pretty
- I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event… Consequence
- I have to admit that 'Psychology Today' was one of the first magazines I started reading, back when I was 13 or 14, because I… Admit
- I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on… Been
- I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or another catches our… Always Influenced
- I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then I had this… Adopted
- People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true crime tale, we… All
- The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are… Affirm
- There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything. Adventure
- You can go on like this for a very long time, and no one will notice. You keep thinking you're going to hit some sort… Bottom
- It doesn't matter what you do. In the end, you are going to be judged, and all the times that you're not at your most… All