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

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

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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, contentment, 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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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