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Michael Chabon Quotes

Where passion is married to intelligence, you may find genius, neurosis, madness or rapture Picture Quote #1

Success, however, does nothing to diminish the knowledge that failure stalks everything you do Picture Quote #1

For the only true sequel is the one that flickers briefly into being in your mind, O my friend by the fireside, in the moments after you read the last paragraph and lay the book down Picture Quote #1

Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story Picture Quote #1

A couple of years later I would marry her for a little while Picture Quote #1

I feel great, I said, trying to decide how I did feel Picture Quote #1

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Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir Picture Quote #1

I have a deadline. I’m glad. I think that will help me get it done Picture Quote #1

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image Picture Quote #1

... But he believed that every great love was in some measure a terrible mistake Picture Quote #1

Some things that are invisible and untouchable can nevertheless be seen and felt Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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He comes to this other world and he has to reinvent himself. Again, it felt natural, even though I'd been working really hard trying to come up with something Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong Picture Quote #1

That was all very nice of them. They didn't have to do anything because I wasn't officially involved at all Picture Quote #1

That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Were viewed as the literary equivalent of bubblegum cards, meant to be poked into the spokes of a young mind where they would produce a satisfying - but entirely bogus rumble of pleasure Picture Quote #1

I had a certain cetacean delicacy of movement in the wide open sea of a hundred yard field Picture Quote #1

As a lifelong habit of marijuana I was used to having even the most dreadful phenomena prove, on further inspection, to be only the figments of my paranoid fancy Picture Quote #1

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Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam Picture Quote #1

Every writer has an ideal reader, I thought, and it was just my good luck that mine wanted to sleep with me Picture Quote #1

Her ankles were wobbling in her tall black pumps, and I saw that it could not be an easy thing to be a drunken transvestite Picture Quote #1

The whiskey tasted like bear steaks and river mud and the flesh of an oak tree. I had another swallow because it tasted so good Picture Quote #1

F neuroses were swimming pools one might, like Cheever's swimmer, steer a course from my house to the city limits and never touch dry land Picture Quote #1

The daily sight of her is going to be a torment, like God torturing Moses with a glimpse of Zion from the top of Mount Pisgah every single day of his life Picture Quote #1

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Where passion is married to intelligence, you may find genius, neurosis, madness or rapture (Michael Chabon Quotes) Success, however, does nothing to diminish the knowledge that failure stalks everything you do (Michael Chabon Quotes) For the only true sequel is the one that flickers briefly into being in your mind, O my friend by the fireside, in the moments after you read the last paragraph and lay the book down (Michael Chabon Quotes) Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story (Michael Chabon Quotes) A couple of years later I would marry her for a little while (Michael Chabon Quotes) I feel great, I said, trying to decide how I did feel (Michael Chabon Quotes) Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir (Michael Chabon Quotes) I have a deadline. I’m glad. I think that will help me get it done (Michael Chabon Quotes) I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image (Michael Chabon Quotes) ... But he believed that every great love was in some measure a terrible mistake (Michael Chabon Quotes) Some things that are invisible and untouchable can nevertheless be seen and felt (Michael Chabon Quotes) 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 (Michael Chabon Quotes) He comes to this other world and he has to reinvent himself. Again, it felt natural, even though I'd been working really hard trying to come up with something (Michael Chabon Quotes) 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 (Michael Chabon Quotes) 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 (Michael Chabon Quotes) So it was scary, but that's 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 didn't have to do anything because I wasn't officially involved at all (Michael Chabon Quotes) That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution (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) 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 (Michael Chabon Quotes) 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 (Michael Chabon Quotes) Were viewed as the literary equivalent of bubblegum cards, meant to be poked into the spokes of a young mind where they would produce a satisfying - but entirely bogus rumble of pleasure (Michael Chabon Quotes) I had a certain cetacean delicacy of movement in the wide open sea of a hundred yard field (Michael Chabon Quotes) As a lifelong habit of marijuana I was used to having even the most dreadful phenomena prove, on further inspection, to be only the figments of my paranoid fancy (Michael Chabon Quotes) Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam (Michael Chabon Quotes) Every writer has an ideal reader, I thought, and it was just my good luck that mine wanted to sleep with me (Michael Chabon Quotes) Her ankles were wobbling in her tall black pumps, and I saw that it could not be an easy thing to be a drunken transvestite (Michael Chabon Quotes) The whiskey tasted like bear steaks and river mud and the flesh of an oak tree. I had another swallow because it tasted so good (Michael Chabon Quotes) F neuroses were swimming pools one might, like Cheever's swimmer, steer a course from my house to the city limits and never touch dry land (Michael Chabon Quotes) The daily sight of her is going to be a torment, like God torturing Moses with a glimpse of Zion from the top of Mount Pisgah every single day of his life (Michael Chabon Quotes)

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