The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your… — Dan Chaon Community Copy Share Image
“This is one of those things that you can never explain to anyone; that's what I want to explain - one of… — Dan Chaon Connections Copy Share Image
I start with an image, then I go from the image toward exploring the situation. Then I write a scene, and from… — Dan Chaon Character Copy Share Image
“That night I sat up writing in my diary writing to Big Me: 'I hope you are alive ' I wrote. 'I… — Dan Chaon Big-me Copy Share Image
“You want a child because it is a link in the bridge that you are building between the past and the future,… — Dan Chaon Children Copy Share Image
“There are little wisps of jelly in a living brain. Deagle knows this well: neurons, transmitting signals - and the soul, so… — Dan Chaon Life Copy Share Image
I think we're always in some ways writing to the teachers who gave us early love. — Dan Chaon Early love Copy Share Image
I've been reading Peter Straub since I was a teenager, and his work is hardwired into my brain. A Dark Matter contains… — Dan Chaon Brain Copy Share Image
“What if she never knows the end of the story? She shudders, and her mind continues to lurch forward into the future,… — Dan Chaon Psychology Copy Share Image
My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died. — Dan Chaon Books Copy Share Image
There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about… — Dan Chaon About yourself Copy Share Image
“She looked at me as if I might be one of them a spy from the world of the ignorant.” — Dan Chaon Short story Copy Share Image
You know, the biggest indicator of where you live is your income. If you live in this suburb you make this much… — Dan Chaon Money Copy Share Image
“He had grown fond of the old proprietress, Mrs. Matalov, who had been a magician's assistant back in the 1930s, and who… — Dan Chaon Beautiful woman Copy Share Image
Identity issues are hardwired into the way I think about character - it's almost as if I can't get away from them… — Dan Chaon Character Copy Share Image
“The type of person who will always be your friend, for as long as you can stand to keep disappointing her.” — Dan Chaon Friendship Copy Share Image
“I’ve always felt personally and emotionally closer to the searchers, rather than to the finders…to those who don’t get answers, as opposed… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“You really romanticize the white-trash period of your life,' Rain once said to me, which I thought was a little hurtful but… — Dan Chaon Hurtful Copy Share Image
For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing. — Dan Chaon Books 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 thing that made me turn more towards writing was realizing how hard it was going to be to get a singular… — Dan Chaon Books Copy Share Image
A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you… — Dan Chaon Books Copy Share Image
It is not like a premonition of death. It is as if she died a long time ago, and she just now… — Dan Chaon Death Copy Share Image
I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in… — Dan Chaon Consequence Copy Share Image
I never could figure out how those people like Bukowski could be both carousers and writers at the same time, because to… — Dan Chaon Destructive Copy Share Image
