Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon
Michael Chabonis an American novelist and short story writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 May 1963
CountryUnited States of America
american-author buy good people worked
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.
books people reading reward
I do think his books would reward reading by people who think they don't like fantasy.
writing people fiction
Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere, living at any time in the history of the world.
people attention boring
Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.
people relief doe
People keep saying, 'Oh, you're getting all these great reviews, that must make you really happy.' I guess it does, but mostly it's just a relief.
thinking two people
I suppose there is something appealing about a word that everyone uses with absolute confidence but on whose exact meaning no two people can agree. The word that I'm thinking of right now is genre, one of those French words, like crêpe, that no one can pronounce both correctly and without sounding pretentious.
lying people
Writers, unlike most people, tell their best lies when they are alone.
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.
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.
amazing characters forced meeting moby noticed parallel realized share starts
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.
book charge feels giving monetary scary value whether writers
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.
american-author
That was all very nice of them. They didn't have to do anything because I wasn't officially involved at all.
american-author collective devoted feels web
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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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.