All Michael Chabon Quotes
- That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution. Absorb
- A father is a man who fails every day. Day
- He is by nature a vegetarian but would never consider giving up meat. Consider
- 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… Been
- Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination. Care
- 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… Across
- 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… Book
- 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… Been
- I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude. Fortress
- So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong. All
- 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… American
- 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… All
- A true storyteller is really good at writing himself into a corner and then finding a way out of that corner Corner
- I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image. Character
- 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… All
- The instructor, Ms. Pease, also taught in the church's religious school, and she had a Sunday school manner at once saccharine and condemnatory. Church
- 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,… Body
- 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… Chance
- The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem. Amendment
- 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… Better