I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or… — Dan Chaon Anecdotes Copy Share Image
I'd read an enormous amount but had spent so much time in my own head that I didn't have extensive social skills.… — Dan Chaon Amount Copy Share Image
“I guess," says Deagle, finally, "I'll just have a pack of Marlboro Lights. That's what I used to smoke when I was… — Dan Chaon Human Copy Share Image
What if you believed that everything in life was like a prize? What if you thought of the world as a big… — Dan Chaon Alive Copy Share Image
“And he saw now that it wasn't real. That it had never been real. He could feel that other life shrinking and… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking. — Dan Chaon Conclusion Copy Share Image
I keep a daily journal of whatever weird thought comes into my mind, like when I had a dream I was in… — Dan Chaon Able Copy Share Image
When I was younger I was attracted to people who had that kind of artifice - people who were incredibly polished and… — Dan Chaon Artifice Copy Share Image
“The desire to remake that shrinking expanse of life they were still allotted, to make use of it, to fill it up… — Dan Chaon Change Copy Share Image
You can go on like this for a very long time, and no one will notice. You keep thinking you're going to… — Dan Chaon Bottom Copy Share Image
Writing short stories was kind of like I was cheating the whole time, in some way. I went back and forth between… — Dan Chaon Books Copy Share Image
“It’s very hard — weirdly hard — to clear your mind of all that crap so that you can just sit down… — Dan Chaon Clear your mind Copy Share Image
“the professor talking about eigengrau—intrinsic gray, brain gray. It was the color you “saw” when light was totally absent, a kind of… — Dan Chaon Light Copy Share Image
“The people who control this country are the real gangsters. You know that, right? And if you play by their rules, you're… — Dan Chaon Await-your-reply Copy Share Image
I never wanted to get to a point in my life where I knew what was going to happen next. I felt… — Dan Chaon Found Copy Share Image
It's not like it ruined my life, I was going to say, but then I didn't. Because it occurred to me that… — Dan Chaon Kind Copy Share Image
You can recognize in your own reading habits what writers are doing that works and what doesn't. I'm becoming much more aware… — Dan Chaon Becoming Copy Share Image
That's how I work, whether with stories or novels - they start with an image that comes to me in a daydream,… — Dan Chaon Books Copy Share Image
The danger in writing about a world you don't know very well is that you can get lost in it, and sometimes… — Dan Chaon Danger Copy Share Image
“It's always terrible when you realize that you've married the wrong book.” — Dan Chaon Books Copy Share Image
“The baby's large eyes settled on him, and though this has been one of his happiest nights in his whole life, it… — Dan Chaon Cause and effect Copy Share Image
There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could… — Dan Chaon Adventure Copy Share Image
“The true terror Jonah thought the true mystery of life was not that we are all going to die but that we… — Dan Chaon Life Copy Share Image
