Bliss Quote by Michael Chabon Download Open image “All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.” — Michael Chabon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bliss Books Influence Novel
Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything - or anything - about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying, or hordes… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I was very fortunate that my first novel captivated the imaginations of so many readers who asked for a sequel. After that, one book… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.' — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Why not dream your own wonderful sequels? When you have finished a book, it can go on in your mind, the characters doing just… — Marguerite Henry Copy Share Image
It's tough to make a sequel that stands up to the original especially one that has, over the course of time, become a bit… — Ruben Fleischer Copy Share Image
I hate the idea of sequels. I think you should be able to do it in one book. — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Anyway, it's a pretty good story," I said. "You have to admit." "Yeah?" He crumpled up the Kleenex, having dispatched the solitary tear. "You… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Badass.'" My grandfather sampled the flavor of the word. It did not seem to revolt him, but it was nothing he needed ever to… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
See you in the funny papers," he said. Jaunty, he reminded himself; always jaunty. In my panache is their hope for salvation. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I didn't want to be left alone with Timothy, not because I was afraid of him but because I was afraid that somebody would… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“He had already seized this particular day once, but he was prepared, if need be, to go ahead and seize the motherfucker all over… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“We figure he must have let him out. The perpetrator, I mean. He's blind and we figure he just wandered off and maybe got… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Then I reminded myself that I was always willing to listen to arguments in favor of avoiding an unpleasant chore, and I shook my… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Love great first lines and paragraphs. From The Yiddish Policemen's Union: Nine months Landsman's been flopping at the Hotel Zamenhof without any of his… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Life blew in gusts from the hole in the side of the elephant with a rank smell and a comic flatulence.” — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Not only would I never want to belong to any club that would have me for a member--if elected I would wear street shoes… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion. — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea she is… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“Being around her now was nine parts bliss and one part torment. And he wanted it to last as long as possible.” — Molly Ringle Copy Share Image
“He was still a mystery to me. And God, did I want to play Nancy Drew.” — Cora Carmack Copy Share Image
Eating, drinking, sleeping a little laughter ! much weeping! Is that all ? Do not die here like a worm. Wake up! Attain immortal bliss! — Sivananda Copy Share Image
How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that's always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice,… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“Everything we perceive to be solid and static is made up of almost entirely empty space.” — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
