Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric… — Dan Chaon Constructs Copy Share Image
I have to admit that 'Psychology Today' was one of the first magazines I started reading, back when I was 13 or… — Dan Chaon Curious Copy Share Image
So this was what it felt like to lose yourself. Again. To let go of your future and let it rise up… — Dan Chaon Letting go Copy Share Image
Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life.… — Dan Chaon Compassion Copy Share Image
In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first… — Dan Chaon Book Copy Share Image
“Fraj-ile," I say, pronouncing it the way she does - as if it might be a popular tourist destination in the Pacific,… — Dan Chaon Cove Copy Share Image
“Her name...was Mrs. marina Orlova, and she had grown up in Siberia. Later, she would tell him that she loathed the American… — Dan Chaon Customs Copy Share Image
The kind of person I find myself interested in is a cross between being very emotionally complex and very immature. That's what… — Dan Chaon Complexes Copy Share Image
Julie Orringer is the real thing, a breathtaking chronicler of the secrets and cruelties underneath the surface of middle-class American life. These… — Dan Chaon American life Copy Share Image
I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once -- I've been working on three different novels. When I… — Dan Chaon Back and forth Copy Share Image
“Let us say that this, all of this, has a logic to it. We understand each other, don't we? Are we not,… — Dan Chaon Religion Copy Share Image
“It's hard to believe that this is how it's done. That this is how we get here into the world, by accident… — Dan Chaon Hard to believe Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a horror story. But in some ways, I have always thought of myself as a kind of ghost-story/horror… — Dan Chaon Ghost Copy Share Image
I've never been able to sleep very much, even when I was a kid. I used to hate being forced to lay… — Dan Chaon Able Copy Share Image
Writing a short story is a little like walking into a dark room, finding a light and turning it on. The light… — Dan Chaon Dark Copy Share Image
I started out as a poet who primarily wanted to write about image and moment. Over the years I've been trying to… — Dan Chaon Collections Copy Share Image
I think at a certain point the book develops a certain weight, or pressure. You've been pushing the rock up the hill… — Dan Chaon Book Copy Share Image
“The pirates would kiss Hayden, and sometimes they would cut off a hank of hair - 'as a reminder of yer kisses,… — Dan Chaon Await-your-reply Copy Share Image
“But maybe it was just a sort of Bluebeard’s wife thing. You can’t help yourself: Open the door, you stupid bitch. Go… — Dan Chaon Help yourself Copy Share Image
The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids. — Dan Chaon Kids Copy Share Image
“As her husband held her close, she could feel the pulse of other choices, other lives, opening up beneath her. Her past… — Dan Chaon Marriage Copy Share Image
It had occurred to him that if the undead don't realize that they are dead, he might easily be one of them… — Dan Chaon Might Copy Share Image
