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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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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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'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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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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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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It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections.
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To some of them it had just been work, ... But some got caught up in the romance of creating comic books.
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As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place.
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Did I really win? ... I had kind of figured it was not my year. My goodness, this is exciting.
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It is unusual for Joe to be that way, but that's what interested me.
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It just made sense to apply this on a grander scale. If one of us can raise that much for a nonprofit on his own, what could a dozen or more authors pull in for the First Amendment Project?
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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.