Michael Chabon Quotes - Page 2

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• I do have a collection of mid-century, small-press science fiction and fantasy hardcovers that is my most focused and dedicated collection. Everything else I tend more to acquire or amass than collect. I have vinyl records I listen to all the time when I work. But I don’t collect records. I just buy records where the price seems right and it’s music I actually listen to.

  Michael Chabon

  Fiction, Records, Fantasy

  "Michael Chabon’s Vinyl Draft". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 2012.

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• The little boy had wandered away from his mother, tacking across the grass toward the play structure. His mother watched him go, proud, tickled, unaware that every time they toddled away from you, they came back a little different, ten seconds older and nearer to the day when they left you for good. Pearl divers in training, staying under a few seconds longer every time.

  Michael Chabon

  Life, Mother, Boys

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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.

  Michael Chabon

  Zoos, Animal, Dams

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Wonder Boys”, p.42, Open Road Media

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• Love is like falconry," he said. "Don't you think that's true, Cleveland?" "Never say love is like anything." said Cleveland. "It isn't.

  Michael Chabon

  Love Is, Thinking, Cleveland

  Michael Chabon (2011). “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh”, p.105, Open Road Media

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• The rest of Sitka's homicides are so-called crimes of passion, which is a shorthand way of expressing the mathematical product of alcohol and firearms.

  Michael Chabon

  Passion, Alcohol, Way

  Michael Chabon (2012). “The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• ... and because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second.

  Michael Chabon

  Perfect, Perception, Half

  Michael Chabon (2011). “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time.

  Michael Chabon

  Lying, Men, Style

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• It was the kind of promise a father makes easily and sincerely, knowing at the same time that it will be impossible to keep. The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart. A game of baseball can't really make a summer day last forever. A home run can't really heal all the broken places in our world, or in a single human heart. And there was no way that Mr. Feld could keep his promise never to leave Ethan again. All parents leave their children one day.

  Michael Chabon

  Summer, Baseball, Running

  Michael Chabon (2002). “Summerland”, Miramax

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• He had no idea of how long his life would one day seem to have gone on; how daily present the absence of love would come to feel. “Just watch me,” he said.

  Michael Chabon

  Ideas, Feels Just, Long

  Michael Chabon (2012). “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel”, p.420, Random House

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• That's why school was invented - to give your parents some peace and quiet during the day.

  Michael Chabon

  School, Giving, Parent

  "Michael Chabon’s Vinyl Draft". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September, 2012.

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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.

  Michael Chabon

  Ecosystems, House, Roles

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• He took a step toward her, than another, tentatively, gathering all his strength, as though about to throw a heavy switch that would, if his calculations were correct, bring light to a hundred cities and ten thousand darkened rooms. He was going to ask her to dance - that was all.

  Michael Chabon

  Light, Cities, Gathering

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• They lay there for a few seconds, in the dark, in the future, listening to the fabulous clockwork of their hearts and lungs, and loving each other

  Michael Chabon

  Heart, Dark, Listening

  Michael Chabon (2012). “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel”, p.380, Random House

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• She was a natural blonde, with delicate hands and feet, and in her youthful photographs one saw a girl with mocking eyes and a tragic smile, the course of whose life would conspire in time to transpose that pair of adjectives.

  Michael Chabon

  Girl, Eye, Delicate Life

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Wonder Boys”, p.192, Open Road Media

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• You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two.

  Michael Chabon

  Writing, Successful, Two

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• The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered handful of doves or dust might be reunited by a word, that a paper rose consumed by fire could be made to bloom from a pile of ash. But everyone knew that it was only an illusion. The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.

  Michael Chabon

  Fire, Dust, Broken

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• 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

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• All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.

  Michael Chabon

  Influence, Bliss, Novel

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands”, p.53, Open Road Media

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• I can imagine anything except having no imagination.

  Michael Chabon

  Imagination, Imagine, I Can

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• And then the man reminded Max, with a serious but suave and practiced air, that freedom was a debt that could be repaid only by purchasing the freedom of others.

  Michael Chabon

  Men, Air, Max

  Michael Chabon (2012). “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel”, p.131, Random House

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• 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

  Memories, Self, Smell

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• It took Marvel Comics years to begin to put together any worthwhile superheroines. The first crop was, to a gal, embarrassingly disappointing. They had all the measly powers that fifties and sixties male chauvinism could contrive to bestow on a superwoman.

  Michael Chabon

  Years, Together, Males

  "A Woman of Valor". Alure, May 2004.

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• The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at ever conscious moment its victim—even if he or she writes at dawn, or in the middle of the afternoon—feels like a person lying in a sweltering bedroom, with the window thrown open, looking up at a sky filled with stars and airplanes, listening to the narrative of a rattling blind, an ambulance, a fly trapped in a Coke bottle, while all around him the neighbours soundly sleep.

  Michael Chabon

  Stars, Lying, Writing

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• All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction....Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the stories that were told before us and that we have come of age loving--amateurs--we proceed, seeking out the blank places in the map that our favorite writers, in their greatness and negligence, have left for us, hoping to pass on to our own readers--should we be lucky enough to find any--some of the pleasure that we ourselves have taken in the stuff that we love: to get in on the game. All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.

  Michael Chabon

  Taken, Greatness, Games

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• Bina, thank you. Bina, listen, this guy. His name wasn't Lasker. This guy-' She puts a hand to his mouth. She has not touched him in three years. It probably would be too much to say that he feels the darkness lift at the touch of her fingertips against his lips. But it shivers, and light bleeds in among the cracks.

  Michael Chabon

  Light, Hands, Years

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