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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A delicate, inexorable lattice of inferences began to assemble themselves, like a crystal, in the old man's mind, shivering, catching the light in glints and surmises.
writing finding-yourself mind
Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.
mind cards pleasure
[Comics] were viewed as the literary equivalent of bubblegum cards, meant to be poked into the spokes of a young mind where they would produce a satisfying but entirely bogus rumble of pleasure.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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the right not to use the name if it is offensive, mischievous, ill-intentioned or inappropriate.
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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.
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Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.
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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.