Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon
Michael Chabonis an American novelist and short story writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 May 1963
CountryUnited States of America
powerful imagination care
Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.
school giving parent
That's why school was invented - to give your parents some peace and quiet during the day.
kids knowing awful
I took comfort, as a kid, in knowing that things had always been as awful and as wonderful as they were now, that the world was always on the edge of total destruction.
escaping anxiety forget
Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.
stars commitment body
Fathering imposed an obligation that was more than your money, your body, or your time, a presence neither physical nor measurable by clocks: open-ended, eternal, and invisible, like the commitment of gravity to the stars.
powerful lying flower
Misogyny comes naturally to a young man in his late teens; it is a function of the powerful homosocial impulses that flower along Fraternity Row, that drove the mod movements of the middle sixties and late seventies, that lie at the heart of every rock band formed by men of that age.
pain party wrath
Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can result when they are revealed. If a writer doesn't give away secrets, his own or those of the people he loves, if he doesn't court disapproval, reproach and general wrath, whether of friends, family or party apparatchiks... the result is pallid, inanimate, a lump of earth.
persistence hardship handwriting
With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.
moments disappointed ifs
He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.
couple boys men
[I]n 1938, Superman appeared. He had been mailed to the offices of National Periodical Publications from Cleveland, by a couple of Jewish boys who had imbued him with the powers of a hundred men, of a distant world, and of the full measure of their bespectacled adolescent hopefulness and desperation.
kids drawing balls
Every day is like a kid's drawing, offered to you with a strange mix of ceremoniousness and offhand disregard, yours for the keeping. Some of the days are rich and complicated, others inscrutable, others little more than a stray gray mark on a ragged page. Some you manage to hang on to, though your reasons for doing so are often hard to fathom. But most of them you just ball up and throw away.
giving-up hypocrisy meat
He is by nature a vegetarian but would never consider giving up meat.
scary delight scar
So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.
thinking solitude fortresses
I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.