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Dan Chaon Quotes

There’s a lot of effort expended once you begin to completely trash your life. Sometimes, writing feels like this to me Picture Quote #1

I always worry that knowing too much about a novel or a story early on in writing will close it down - it feels fatalistic in some way Picture Quote #1

Maybe love, like suffering, is relative Picture Quote #1

I’ve never been able to sleep very much, even when I was a kid. I used to hate being forced to lay in bed in the darkness, and just shifting in bed and staring at the shadows Picture Quote #1

I like to sleep about four or five really solid hours at night, and then sometimes take a nap in the afternoon or early evening after dinner. I love naps Picture Quote #1

I tend to like order in almost every other aspect of my life, but for me, the process of writing is really chaotic and decadent and indulgent Picture Quote #1

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There’s a lot of effort expended once you begin to completely trash your life. Sometimes, writing feels like this to me Picture Quote #1

I wanted to write a horror story. But in some ways, I have always thought of myself as a kind of ghost-story/horror writer, though most of the time the supernatural never actually appears on stage Picture Quote #1

You can’t count on notoriety lasting very long, and there’s no way to predict whether anyone will care about your books or you in three years, let alone ten or twenty Picture Quote #1

The feeling of being an outsider, and the identity theme, are hardwired into me. If there’s anything really autobiographical in my fiction, it’s that feeling. I always feel that way Picture Quote #1

The danger in writing about a world you don’t know very well is that you can get lost in it, and sometimes I’ll end up with a hundred pages I don’t know what to do with Picture Quote #1

I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them Picture Quote #1

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A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking Picture Quote #1

It doesn’t matter what you do. In the end, you are going to be judged, and all the times that you’re not at your most dignified are the ones that will be recalled in all their vivid, heartbreaking detail. And then of course these things will be distorted and exaggerated and replayed over and over, until eventually they turn into the essence of you: your cartoon Picture Quote #1

You can go on like this for a very long time, and no one will notice. You keep thinking you’re going to hit some sort of bottom, but I’m here to tell you: There is no bottom Picture Quote #1

In the end, there probably isn’t much difference between being in love and acting like you’re in love Picture Quote #1

Sometimes he thinks that if he could only trace the path of his life carefully enough, everything would become clear. The ways that he screwed up would make sense. He closes his eyes tightly. His life wasn’t always a mistake, he thinks, and he breathes uncertainly for awhile, trying to find a pathway into unconsciousness, into sleep Picture Quote #1

At a certain point, you must be able to slip loose. At a certain point, you found that you had been set free. You could be anyone, he thought. You could be anyone Picture Quote #1

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There are so many people we could become, and we leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it’s hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years? Picture Quote #1

I never wanted to get to a point in my life where I knew what was going to happen next. I felt like most people just couldn’t wait until they found themselves settled down into a routine and they didn’t have to think about the next day, or the next year, or the next decade because it was all planned out for them. I can’t understand how people can settle for having just one life Picture Quote #1

So this was what it felt like to lose yourself. Again. To let go of your future and let it rise up and up until finally you couldn’t see it anymore, and you knew that you had to start over Picture Quote #1

It had occurred to him that if the undead don’t realize that they are dead, he might easily be one of them himself Picture Quote #1

Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future Picture Quote #1

It is not like a premonition of death. It is as if she died a long time ago, and she just now remembered it Picture Quote #1

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Fiction is fun because you get to steal an identity and try to make it authentic Picture Quote #1

Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective Picture Quote #1

Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it’s like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory Picture Quote #1

The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids Picture Quote #1

Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else’s eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven’t actually experienced Picture Quote #1

The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you’re experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true Picture Quote #1

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There’s a lot of effort expended once you begin to completely trash your life. Sometimes, writing feels like this to me. (Dan Chaon Quotes) I always worry that knowing too much about a novel or a story early on in writing will close it down - it feels fatalistic in some way (Dan Chaon Quotes) Maybe love, like suffering, is relative (Dan Chaon Quotes) I’ve never been able to sleep very much, even when I was a kid. I used to hate being forced to lay in bed in the darkness, and just shifting in bed and staring at the shadows (Dan Chaon Quotes) I like to sleep about four or five really solid hours at night, and then sometimes take a nap in the afternoon or early evening after dinner. I love naps (Dan Chaon Quotes) I tend to like order in almost every other aspect of my life, but for me, the process of writing is really chaotic and decadent and indulgent (Dan Chaon Quotes) There’s a lot of effort expended once you begin to completely trash your life. Sometimes, writing feels like this to me (Dan Chaon Quotes) I wanted to write a horror story. But in some ways, I have always thought of myself as a kind of ghost-story/horror writer, though most of the time the supernatural never actually appears on stage (Dan Chaon Quotes) You can’t count on notoriety lasting very long, and there’s no way to predict whether anyone will care about your books or you in three years, let alone ten or twenty (Dan Chaon Quotes) The feeling of being an outsider, and the identity theme, are hardwired into me. If there’s anything really autobiographical in my fiction, it’s that feeling. I always feel that way (Dan Chaon Quotes) The danger in writing about a world you don’t know very well is that you can get lost in it, and sometimes I’ll end up with a hundred pages I don’t know what to do with (Dan Chaon Quotes) I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them (Dan Chaon Quotes) A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking (Dan Chaon Quotes) It doesn’t matter what you do. In the end, you are going to be judged, and all the times that you’re not at your most dignified are the ones that will be recalled in all their vivid, heartbreaking detail. And then of course these things will be distorted and exaggerated and replayed over and over, until eventually they turn into the essence of you: your cartoon (Dan Chaon Quotes) You can go on like this for a very long time, and no one will notice. You keep thinking you’re going to hit some sort of bottom, but I’m here to tell you: There is no bottom (Dan Chaon Quotes) In the end, there probably isn’t much difference between being in love and acting like you’re in love (Dan Chaon Quotes) Sometimes he thinks that if he could only trace the path of his life carefully enough, everything would become clear. The ways that he screwed up would make sense. He closes his eyes tightly. His life wasn’t always a mistake, he thinks, and he breathes uncertainly for awhile, trying to find a pathway into unconsciousness, into sleep (Dan Chaon Quotes) At a certain point, you must be able to slip loose. At a certain point, you found that you had been set free. You could be anyone, he thought. You could be anyone (Dan Chaon Quotes) There are so many people we could become, and we leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it’s hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years? (Dan Chaon Quotes) I never wanted to get to a point in my life where I knew what was going to happen next. I felt like most people just couldn’t wait until they found themselves settled down into a routine and they didn’t have to think about the next day, or the next year, or the next decade because it was all planned out for them. I can’t understand how people can settle for having just one life (Dan Chaon Quotes) So this was what it felt like to lose yourself. Again. To let go of your future and let it rise up and up until finally you couldn’t see it anymore, and you knew that you had to start over (Dan Chaon Quotes) It had occurred to him that if the undead don’t realize that they are dead, he might easily be one of them himself (Dan Chaon Quotes) Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future (Dan Chaon Quotes) It is not like a premonition of death. It is as if she died a long time ago, and she just now remembered it (Dan Chaon Quotes) Fiction is fun because you get to steal an identity and try to make it authentic (Dan Chaon Quotes) Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective (Dan Chaon Quotes) Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it’s like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory (Dan Chaon Quotes) The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids (Dan Chaon Quotes) Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else’s eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven’t actually experienced (Dan Chaon Quotes) The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you’re experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true (Dan Chaon Quotes)

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