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Michael Chabon Quotes: "Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to."

Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "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."

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.




Michael Chabon Quotes: "Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam."

Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination."

Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.




Michael Chabon Quotes: "A delicate, inexorable lattice of inferences began to assemble themselves, like a crystal, in the old man's mind, shivering, catching the light in glints and surmises."

A delicate, inexorable lattice of inferences began to assemble themselves, like a crystal, in the old man's mind, shivering, catching the light in glints and surmises.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "Man makes plans . . . and God laughs."

Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with."

My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with.




Michael Chabon Quotes: "It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope."

It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk."

Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "I said, “I need to hear something that’s going to save my life.” Re: Selecting songs from a jukebox."

I said, “I need to hear something that’s going to save my life.” Re: Selecting songs from a jukebox.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "Never say love is "like" anything... It isn't."

Never say love is "like" anything... It isn't.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. ... I think it's just a natural human response to loss."

For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. ... I think it's just a natural human response to loss.




Michael Chabon Quotes: "Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big dark eyeglasses!"

Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big dark eyeglasses!



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

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



Michael Chabon Quotes: "Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature and one of only three now writing whose work makes me truly happy to be a reader."

Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature and one of only three now writing whose work makes me truly happy to be a reader.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "The devolution of American culture takes another great step forward"

The devolution of American culture takes another great step forward



Michael Chabon Quotes: "Love is like falconry," he said. "Don't you think that's true, Cleveland?" "Never say love is like anything." said Cleveland. "It isn't."

Love is like falconry," he said. "Don't you think that's true, Cleveland?" "Never say love is like anything." said Cleveland. "It isn't.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on."

With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "I don’t mean to make a big deal out of sobriety, by the way. Of all the modes of human consciousness available to the modern consumer I consider it to be the most overrated."

I don’t mean to make a big deal out of sobriety, by the way. Of all the modes of human consciousness available to the modern consumer I consider it to be the most overrated.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still make the same mistakes every time."

When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still make the same mistakes every time.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "Not only would I never want to belong to any club that would have me for a member--if elected I would wear street shoes onto the squash court and set fire to the ballroom curtains."

Not only would I never want to belong to any club that would have me for a member--if elected I would wear street shoes onto the squash court and set fire to the ballroom curtains.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "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."

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.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "I have a deadline. I'm glad. I think that will help me get it done."

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



Michael Chabon Quotes: "I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image."

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



Michael Chabon Quotes: "Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention."

Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "See you in the funny papers," he said. Jaunty, he reminded himself; always jaunty. In my panache is their hope for salvation."

See you in the funny papers," he said. Jaunty, he reminded himself; always jaunty. In my panache is their hope for salvation.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude."

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



Michael Chabon Quotes: "It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology."

It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "They lay there for a few seconds, in the dark, in the future, listening to the fabulous clockwork of their hearts and lungs, and loving each other"

They lay there for a few seconds, in the dark, in the future, listening to the fabulous clockwork of their hearts and lungs, and loving each other



Michael Chabon Quotes: "I took comfort, as a kid, in knowing that things had always been as awful and as wonderful as they were now, that the world was always on the edge of total destruction."

I took comfort, as a kid, in knowing that things had always been as awful and as wonderful as they were now, that the world was always on the edge of total destruction.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "All novels are sequels; influence is bliss."

All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "He comes to this other world and he has to reinvent himself. Again, it felt natural, even though I'd been working really hard trying to come up with something."

He comes to this other world and he has to reinvent himself. Again, it felt natural, even though I'd been working really hard trying to come up with something.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world...?"

If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world...?



Michael Chabon Quotes: "The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness"

The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness



Michael Chabon Quotes: "A father is a man who fails every day."

A father is a man who fails every day.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep."

As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew."

He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal."

There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir."

Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "He is by nature a vegetarian but would never consider giving up meat."

He is by nature a vegetarian but would never consider giving up meat.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "... and because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second."

... and because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "[Comics] were viewed as the literary equivalent of bubblegum cards, meant to be poked into the spokes of a young mind where they would produce a satisfying but entirely bogus rumble of pleasure."

[Comics] were viewed as the literary equivalent of bubblegum cards, meant to be poked into the spokes of a young mind where they would produce a satisfying but entirely bogus rumble of pleasure.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "Every generation loses the Messiah it has failed to deserve."

Every generation loses the Messiah it has failed to deserve.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "... But he believed that every great love was in some measure a terrible mistake."

... But he believed that every great love was in some measure a terrible mistake.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "He was a fugitive, lurking soul, James Leer. He didn't belong anywhere, but things went much better for him in places where nobody belonged."

He was a fugitive, lurking soul, James Leer. He didn't belong anywhere, but things went much better for him in places where nobody belonged.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment."

A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "It was nice standing out in the darkness, in the damp grass, with spring coming on and a feeling in my heart of imminent disaster."

It was nice standing out in the darkness, in the damp grass, with spring coming on and a feeling in my heart of imminent disaster.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon."

Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon.



Michael Chabon Quotes: "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."

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.