Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon
Michael Chabonis an American novelist and short story writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 May 1963
CountryUnited States of America
exciting soon theater totally war
As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place.
arrested cry fear goal greatest hopeful meaningful name number prosecuted saw whose work writers
I don't think anything else can be hopeful or accomplished if you have the fear that you will get arrested or prosecuted or censored, ... I saw a cry for help. So it was my goal to try to get writers whose work and whose name would be meaningful to the greatest number of people.
figured goodness
Did I really win? ... I had kind of figured it was not my year. My goodness, this is exciting.
american-author
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.
name
the right not to use the name if it is offensive, mischievous, ill-intentioned or inappropriate.
caught comic creating romance
To some of them it had just been work, ... But some got caught up in the romance of creating comic books.
stars commitment body
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, and invisible, like the commitment of gravity to the stars.
escaping anxiety forget
Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.
feelings risk moments
Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.
loss thinking nostalgia
For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. I think it's just a natural human response to loss.
broken long pieces
Along the way, he or she discovers that the world has been broken for as long as anyone can remember. Everyone, sooner or later, gets a thorough schooling in brokenness. The question becomes what to do with the pieces?
writing discovery perfect
I love the internet and it has been incredibly useful and I have made discoveries that have been immeasurably crucial to my work [writing] - things I don't know how I ever would have found out otherwise, that are perfect, just what I need for whatever I'm doing.
hate book design
I hate to see great works of literature ghettoized, whereas others that conform to the rules, conventions, and procedures of the genre we call literary fiction get accorded greater esteem and privilege. I also have a problem with how books are marketed, with certain cover designs and typefaces. They're often stamped with an identity that has nothing to do with their effect on the reader.
writing quiet internet
While writing, I'll go anywhere I find that is quiet, has no internet. I have a big internet problem.