Michael Chabon Quotes

Michael Chabon (25)

Birth:	24th May, 1963
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Columnist, Novelist, Screenwriter, Writer

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• 1921 - Jack Steinberger
• 1953 - Stan Sakai
• 1973 - Molly Sims
• 1938 - Tom T. Hall
• 1959 - Julian Peter McDonald Clary

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• 2006 - Desmond Dekker
• 2007 - Charles Nelson Reilly
• 1681 - Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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• What’s going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I’ll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it.

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  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.

   

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• The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

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• That’s the best thing about writing, when you’re in that zone, you’re porous, ready to absorb the solution.

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• That was all very nice of them. They didn’t have to do anything because I wasn’t officially involved at all.

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• So it was scary, but that’s how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.

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• People keep saying, ‘Oh, you’re getting all these great reviews, that must make you really happy.’ I guess it does, but mostly it’s just a relief.

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• Moby Dick – that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that’s how my book begins, too, but I hadn’t noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.

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• 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 in.

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• Joe is the hero and Sammy is the sidekick. That’s how I feel about it.

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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 was fun. That was something I came to fairly late.

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• It was an incredible resource. I’d sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the ‘Talk of the Town’ sections.

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• It is unusual for Joe to be that way, but that’s what interested me.

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• I wasn’t 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.

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• I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.

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• 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.

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• I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

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• I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It’s a devastating novel.

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• I have a deadline. I’m glad. I think that will help me get it done.

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