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I didn't want to go to places that have been written about so many times by people so much more qualified than I, like James Jones and Norman Mailer who lived through it. I was always searching for my own theater of war.

Quote by Michael Chabon about searching, war, people

I do see it as forming a continuum with the earlier books. It shares some of the same themes, in particular that of the friendship between a gay man and a straight man.

Quote by Michael Chabon about friendship, books, man

I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there.

Quote by Michael Chabon about childhood, self-control, common sense, sense, old, olderness

I have a deadline. I'm glad. I think that will help me get it done.

Quote by Michael Chabon about help

I hope it will appeal to people who haven't read the other books or people who thought they wouldn't be interested in them.

Quote by Michael Chabon about haven, books, hope, people, thinking

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.

Quote by Michael Chabon about chance, things

I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel.

Quote by Michael Chabon about work, love

I love tinkering with the web site. I'm a Mac user, and it's fun for me to create a web page with HTML, but I have two kids and a lot of work to do, so it's rare that I can steal the four or five hours it takes to pack together a good addition to...

Quote by Michael Chabon about work, good, good luck, love

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 contentment, 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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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 contentment, rightness

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

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