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 was the beginning of youth culture and pandering to youth culture, ... In that, the comic book publishers were definitely pioneers.
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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 don't think anything else can be hopeful or accomplished if you have the fear that you will get arrested or prosecuted or censored, ... I saw a cry for help. So it was my goal to try to get writers whose work and whose name would be meaningful to the greatest number of people.
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It feels a little scary for most writers because when you're writing, you're completely in charge you can say this book is all mine, it's my world. Whether giving over some of that has any monetary value or not, we'll see.
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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.
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I'm such a devoted web user, myself, that it feels important to me to have a presence, to be a part of that whole collective enterprise.
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That was all very nice of them. They didn't have to do anything because I wasn't officially involved at all.
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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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Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story.
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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.