Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon
Michael Chabonis an American novelist and short story writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 May 1963
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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It was fun. That was something I came to fairly late.
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It was the beginning of youth culture and pandering to youth culture, ... In that, the comic book publishers were definitely pioneers.
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It is unusual for Joe to be that way, but that's what interested me.
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Joe is the hero and Sammy is the sidekick. That's how I feel about it.
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I was a big comics reader when I was a kid, from about six to fifteen. I collected them, I read them, I even created my own characters in comics.
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I do think his books would reward reading by people who think they don't like fantasy.
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I completely lost interest in comics. I sold my collection. I didn't go back to them for fifteen years - until after Wonder Boys.
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Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. Every golem in the history of the world, from Rabbi Hanina's delectable goat to the river-clay Frankenstein of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, was summoned into existence through language, through murmuring, recital, and kabbalistic chitchat -- was, literally, talked into life.
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The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day.
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I don't do a lot of foisting, because when it comes to books I don't really like to be foisted upon.
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Some things that are invisible and untouchable can nevertheless be seen and felt.
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His dreams had always been Houdiniesque: they were the dreams of a pupa struggling in its blind cocoon, mad for a taste of light and air.
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I can imagine anything except having no imagination.