Michael Chabon Quotes

Joe is the hero and Sammy is the sidekick. That's how I feel about it.
Michael Chabon

Hero, Joe, Sammy

Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story.
Michael Chabon

Tell, Means, Story

Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath.
Michael Chabon

Time, Deep, Another

I have a deadline. I'm glad. I think that will help me get it done.
Michael Chabon

Help, Done, Deadline

I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel.
Michael Chabon

Love, Work, Road

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

Feeling, Give, Wanted

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

Thinking, Solitude, Superman

It is unusual for Joe to be that way, but that's what interested me.
Michael Chabon

Interested, Unusual, Joe

It was fun. That was something I came to fairly late.
Michael Chabon

Fun, Late, Fairly

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.
Michael Chabon

Great, Happy, Saying

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

Great, Goes, Scary

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

Nice, Involved, Officially

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

Best, Writing, Ready

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

Life, Same, Sun

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.
Michael Chabon

Love, Time, Fire

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

War, Two, Place

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

Hard, Trying, Working

I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there.
Michael Chabon

Self, Old, Sense

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.
Michael Chabon

Good, Fear, Wife

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

Thought, Write, Point

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.
Michael Chabon

Through, Big, Talk

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

Time, Good, Long

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.
Michael Chabon

Work, Yourself, Mind

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.
Michael Chabon

Amazing, Book, Two

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

Hard, Try, Divorce

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: May 24, 1963

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