Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon
Michael Chabonis an American novelist and short story writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 May 1963
CountryUnited States of America
broken long pieces
Along the way, he or she discovers that the world has been broken for as long as anyone can remember. Everyone, sooner or later, gets a thorough schooling in brokenness. The question becomes what to do with the pieces?
i-love-you falling-in-love long
As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep.
ideas feels-just long
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.
adventure men long
All male friendships are essentially quixotic: they last only so long as each man is willing to polish the shaving-bowl helmet, climb on his donkey, and ride off after the other in pursuit of illusive glory and questionable adventure.
long inspire nostalgia
. . .I really ought to have recognized it for what it was and, perhaps, to have stopped right there - for it was nostalgia, and what inspires nostalgia has been dead a long time
american-author disappear giving hold might opportunity readers written
I like giving readers an opportunity to get a hold of me in that way and to read things I've written which might disappear otherwise.
american-author characters collected comics created reader six
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.
american-author bound incredible sit stack yorkers
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.
caught comic creating romance
To some of them it had just been work, ... But some got caught up in the romance of creating comic books.
exciting soon theater totally war
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.
figured goodness
Did I really win? ... I had kind of figured it was not my year. My goodness, this is exciting.
chosen names remotely winning
The winning names were not even remotely names I would have chosen or invented.
name
the right not to use the name if it is offensive, mischievous, ill-intentioned or inappropriate.
american-author
The 'Talk of the Town' was really that in the 1940s: it was all about New York, it was only about New York, and it was about people.