Michael Chabon Quotes

  • All novels are sequels; influence is bliss. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one... <span class='nobr'></span>
  • 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 wor... <span class='nobr'></span>
  • I HAD known him as a bulldozer, as a samurai, as an android programmed to kill, as Plastic Man and Titanium Man and Matter-Eater Lad, as a Buick Electra, as a Peterbilt truck, and ... <span class='nobr'></span>
  • Other than along certain emotional tangents there was little in the book that felt as if it had actually been lived. It was a fiction produced by someone who knew only fictions, Th... <span class='nobr'></span>
  • The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness <span class='nobr'></span>
  • There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • Mendel had a remarkable nature as a boy. I’m not talking about miracles. Miracles are a burden for a tzaddik, not the proof of one. Miracles prove nothing except to those whose f... <span class='nobr'></span>
  • And the next moment the fierce wind comes screaming, whirling the needle-pointed dust, stifling all hope. And you know then that what has not happened will never happen. That hope ... <span class='nobr'></span>
  • All at once he feels weary of ganefs and prophets, guns and sacrifices and the infinite gangster weight of God. He's tired of hearing about the promised land and the inevitable blo... <span class='nobr'></span>
  • Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh." [Afterword] <span class='nobr'></span>
  • This is an essential element of the business of being a man: to flood everyone around you in a great radiant arc of bullshit, <span class='nobr'></span>
  • It takes a sour woman to make a good pickle. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • The city was new again, and newly dangerous, and I would walk the streets quickly, eyes averted from those of passersby, like a spy in the employ of lust and happiness, carrying th... <span class='nobr'></span>
All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.

Michael Chabon Quotes About Books

All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.

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It takes a sour woman to make a good pickle.

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