Quotes by Michael Chabon, page 3

Michael Chabon - american Author

Life period: 1909

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.

Quote by Michael Chabon about nation, commerce, people, good, good luck, time

Joe is the hero and Sammy is the sidekick. That's how I feel about it.

Quote by Michael Chabon about heroism

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.

Quote by Michael Chabon about chance, writing, mind, work

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.

Quote by Michael Chabon about meetings

My agent lived in New York for over twenty years and like most people who are adopted New Yorkers she's very passionate about the city. Also, she has a particular interest in this period, especially of golden age Hollywood films.

Quote by Michael Chabon about city, interest, age, olderness, people

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.

Quote by Michael Chabon about nation, happiness, people

So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.

That makes Joe pretty unusual among comic book artists of his time, though there were a couple, the foremost among them being Will Eisner, a brilliant artist and a very talented storyteller.

Quote by Michael Chabon about artists, couple, being, time

That was all very nice of them. They didn't have to do anything because I wasn't officially involved at all.

That was the flash: I was going to write about comic book creators in the 1940s.

That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.

Quote by Michael Chabon about writing, things

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.

Quote by Michael Chabon about city, people

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

Quote by Michael Chabon about sun, writers, life

The Superman story is one of the underlying threads of the story, coming from another planet, leaving his parents and his world that got blown up behind.

Quote by Michael Chabon about love, parents, world

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

Quote by Michael Chabon about books, fire, fire brigade, things, time, love

There was a Jewish element to all that, and the creators of all these golden age comic books, many of them were Jewish kids.

Quote by Michael Chabon about books, age, olderness

Those things tend not to get reprinted. It's nice to be able to give them another chance at life by putting them on the web.

Quote by Michael Chabon about chance, things, life

What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it.

Quote by Michael Chabon about film

When I started working the Houdini vein, very quickly I realized that escapism is always a charge leveled against comics: why would one want to waste time reading them? It all belonged together.

Quote by Michael Chabon about waste, time

When I started writing about the golem, I trusted that it belonged in the book just as I trusted that escape artistry belonged.

Quote by Michael Chabon about writing