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Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon

American Author

Born: May 24, 1963

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Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath. Michael Chabon

Time Breath Every Every Time Out Another Review Deep Deep Breath

As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place. Michael Chabon

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

Solitude Superman Thinking Too His Fortress

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

Best You Writing Solution About Absorb Ready Thing Zone

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

Me Way Joe Unusual Interested

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

Work Love Devastating Road His Revolutionary Richard Novel

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

Love Time Me Fire Back Books Say About More Reader Than Going Maybe Cholera Keep Keep Going They Say Pale Things

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. Michael Chabon

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. Michael Chabon

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

Hero Sidekick Joe About Feel How

Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story. Michael Chabon

Me Books Tell Comic Comic Books Were Just Story Means

I remember tearing up the first time I read Nabokov's description, in 'Speak, Memory,' of his father being tossed on a blanket by cheering muzhiks, with its astonishingly subtle foreshadowing of grief and mourning. Michael Chabon

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I work at night, starting at around 10 o'clock and working until 2 or 3 in the morning. I do that usually five days a week. In Berkeley, I have an office behind our house that I share with my wife, who works more in the daytime. Michael Chabon

Ideas are the easy part. I spend a lot of time batting them away, trying to keep them from distracting me from what I actually have to focus on and finish. A lot of times, they are a siren temptress beckoning me with the promise of a much shorter, simpler, more slender novel over the horizon, but of course that's very dangerous. Michael Chabon

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I'm a big fan of Tarantino's work, and I think I'm fascinated by his evident sense of entitlement to use black characters and black material that he feels not simply comfortable with, but that it's his right and privilege - the apparent ease with which he handles black characters, fully aware that he's been criticized for that, too. Michael Chabon

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I have a good memory for words, and when I come upon a word I don't know, I remember it, or try to - it's almost like a tic. I also just have a good feeling for how words are made and formed in English and the etymologies that give you prefixes and suffixes. Michael Chabon

Nothing ever comes out the way I hope it will. That first vision, that initial vision you have of a book, what it's going to be like when it's done, it begins to go wrong the second you start to write. Michael Chabon

When I was in my early to mid-teens, that was a very heavy diet of science fiction and fantasy, so those were the kinds of books I tended to imagine writing someday, or even began to try to write. Michael Chabon

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