Michael Chabon Quotes About Mistakes

Quotes about: Mistakes

• When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still make the same mistakes every time.

  Michael Chabon

  Mistake, Writing, Firsts

• ... But he believed that every great love was in some measure a terrible mistake.

  Michael Chabon

  Mistake, Great Love, Terrible

  Michael Chabon (2011). “A Model World: And Other Stories”, p.17, Open Road Media

• It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped Formica counter, and thrums with the gossip of criminals, policemen, shtarkers,and schlemiels, whores and night owls ... three or four floaters, solitaries, and drunks between benders lean against the sparkly resin counter, sucking the tea from their shtekelehs and working the calulations of their next big mistake.

  Michael Chabon

  Mistake, Night, Gossip

• I don't think you could teach someone to be a genius, but you can certainly teach them to not make rookie mistakes and to look at writing the way a writer looks at writing, and not just the way a reader looks at writing. There are a lot of techniques and skills that can be taught that will be helpful to anybody, no matter how gifted they are, and I think writing programs can be very good for people.

  Michael Chabon

  Mistake, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 22, 2000.

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