Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon
Michael Chabonis an American novelist and short story writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 May 1963
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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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.
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Did I really win? ... I had kind of figured it was not my year. My goodness, this is exciting.
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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.
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the right not to use the name if it is offensive, mischievous, ill-intentioned or inappropriate.
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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.
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It's good to have it over with. I worked on it a long time, and I didn't know what people were going to think of it. Would people like it? Would they buy it? So far it's been doing pretty well.
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It just made sense to apply this on a grander scale. If one of us can raise that much for a nonprofit on his own, what could a dozen or more authors pull in for the First Amendment Project?
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To some of them it had just been work, ... But some got caught up in the romance of creating comic books.
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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.
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Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.
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It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.
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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.
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For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. I think it's just a natural human response to loss.