Michael Chabon Quotes

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• That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.
• A father is a man who fails every day.
• He is by nature a vegetarian but would never consider giving up meat.
• When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still make the same mistakes every…
• Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.
• The little boy had wandered away from his mother, tacking across the grass toward the play structure. His mother watched him go, proud, tickled, unaware…
• The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time…
• He comes to this other world and he has to reinvent himself. Again, it felt natural, even though I'd been working really hard trying to…
• I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.
• So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.
• Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature and one of only three now writing whose work makes me truly happy…
• Maybe all wondrous books appear in our lives the way Milo’s tollbooth appears, an inexplicable gift, cast up by some curious chance that comes to…
• A true storyteller is really good at writing himself into a corner and then finding a way out of that corner
• I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.
• He took a step toward her, than another, tentatively, gathering all his strength, as though about to throw a heavy switch that would, if his…
• The instructor, Ms. Pease, also taught in the church's religious school, and she had a Sunday school manner at once saccharine and condemnatory.
• Fathering imposed an obligation that was more than your money, your body, or your time, a presence neither physical nor measurable by clocks: open-ended, eternal,…
• Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself…
• The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.
• Rueful, bittersweet, funny, written with tenderness and bite, Merrill Feitell's stories, like so many classic short stories, are made from the plain and painful stuff…

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