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Michael Chabon Quotes
As soon as I read that, it clicked: thats my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place. - Michael Chabon Quotes
Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story. - Michael Chabon Quotes
Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath. - Michael Chabon Quotes
Having chosen to set the book during this period, from the first day I was writing, I knew I was going to have to do something about World War Two. - Michael Chabon Quotes
He comes to this other world and he has to reinvent himself. Again, it felt natural, even though Id been working really hard trying to come up with something. - Michael Chabon Quotes
I completely lost interest in comics. I sold my collection. I didnt go back to them for fifteen years - until after Wonder Boys. - Michael Chabon Quotes
I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there. - Michael Chabon Quotes
I have a deadline. Im glad. I think that will help me get it done. - Michael Chabon Quotes
I like giving readers an opportunity to get a hold of me in that way and to read things Ive written which might disappear otherwise. - Michael Chabon Quotes
I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. Its a devastating novel. - Michael Chabon Quotes
I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image. - Michael Chabon Quotes
I was a big comics reader when I was a kid, from about six to fifteen. I collected them, I read them, I even created my own characters in comics. - Michael Chabon Quotes
I was surprised that my wife thought it was a good idea, then again with my agent, another woman, then my editor, another woman - in spite of the fact that all three of them reacted positively I still have this fear. - Michael Chabon Quotes
I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude. - Michael Chabon Quotes
I wasnt involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it. - Michael Chabon Quotes
Im such a devoted web user, myself, that it feels important to me to have a presence, to be a part of that whole collective enterprise. - Michael Chabon Quotes
It is unusual for Joe to be that way, but thats what interested me. - Michael Chabon Quotes
It was an incredible resource. Id sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the Talk of the Town sections. - Michael Chabon Quotes
It was fun. That was something I came to fairly late. - Michael Chabon Quotes
Its good to have it over with. I worked on it a long time, and I didnt know what people were going to think of it. Would people like it? Would they buy it? So far its been doing pretty well. - Michael Chabon Quotes
Joe is the hero and Sammy is the sidekick. Thats how I feel about it. - Michael Chabon Quotes
Louis Pasteur said, Chance favors the prepared mind. If youre really engaged in the writing, youll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in. - Michael Chabon Quotes
Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; thats how my book begins, too, but I hadnt noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly. - Michael Chabon Quotes
People keep saying, Oh, youre getting all these great reviews, that must make you really happy. I guess it does, but mostly its just a relief. - Michael Chabon Quotes
So it was scary, but thats how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong. - Michael Chabon Quotes
That was all very nice of them. They didnt have to do anything because I wasnt officially involved at all. - Michael Chabon Quotes
Thats the best thing about writing, when youre in that zone, youre porous, ready to absorb the solution. - Michael Chabon Quotes
The Talk of the Town was really that in the 1940s: it was all about New York, it was only about New York, and it was about people. - Michael Chabon Quotes
The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem. - Michael Chabon Quotes
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 of Cholera, Pale Fire. - Michael Chabon Quotes
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