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.
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.