Michael Chabon Giving Quotations

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

That's why school was invented - to give your parents some peace and quiet during the day.

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

It never takes longer than a few minutes, when they get together, for everyone to revert to the state of nature, like a party marooned by a shipwreck. That's what a family is. Also the storm at sea, the ship, and the unknown shore. And the hats and the whiskey stills that you make out of bamboo and coconuts. And the fire that you light to keep away the beasts.

It feels a little scary for most writers because when you're writing, you're completely in charge you can say this book is all mine, it's my world. Whether giving over some of that has any monetary value or not, we'll see.

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.