Quotes by Michael Chabon, page 2

Michael Chabon - american Author

Life period: 1909

I probably should just say 'Thank you, ' take the compliment, and leave it at that, but the truth is that it was hard-going.

Quote by Michael Chabon about truth

I started to feel that I had a large problem: my comic book characters didn't exist, and none of my readers would have seen them. The Escapist existed only within the covers of this book.

I thought it worked as a movie pretty well. I got lucky. I got a really good director, a good script, great music, and a really nice look - the cinematographer was brilliant. But it was a tough sell. It was hard for them to find a target audience.

Quote by Michael Chabon about commerce, good, good luck, music, thinking

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

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.

I was surprised that my wife thought it was a good idea, then again with my agent, another woman, then my editor, another woman - in spite of the fact that all three of them reacted positively I still have this fear.

Quote by Michael Chabon about woman, wife, fear, idea, thinking, good, good luck

I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.

Quote by Michael Chabon about solitude, thinking

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.

Quote by Michael Chabon about writers, thinking

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.

If I'm published in Vogue, say, or in The New York Times Sunday magazine, once it disappears from the beauty salons and doctors' offices, it's gone forever.

Quote by Michael Chabon about beauty

If you put yourself out there and you're lucky, it comes to you. You find it, and you know right away that's it.

Quote by Michael Chabon about rightness

In case any of the Axis powers made a grab for the Antarctic, the United States wanted to have a foothold.

It grew very organically. I allowed all these streams to enter the book because they felt as though they needed to.

It is unusual for Joe to be that way, but that's what interested me.

It just clicked: if the character had a nosebleed, it would be like a 'losing the virginity' thing, physical evidence like blood on the sheets. That was exactly the kind of image I'd been looking for.

Quote by Michael Chabon about blood, character, things

It probably reaches deep down into my childhood history as a geek, being interested in comic books and getting nowhere with girls. Those two things going hand-in-hand.

Quote by Michael Chabon about childhood, books, history, being, things

It was a little scary because a similar thing had happened with Fountain City, the failed novel, all sorts of disparate themes running together; in that book I trusted my instincts but it didn't work. I couldn't get it to hang together.

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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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It was fun. That was something I came to fairly late.

It's about comic books, and in my greatly enlarged recent experience it's become clear that women have a very negative attitude toward comic books. They didn't grow up reading them, for the most part.

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