Michael Chabon Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it.”

“What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it.”

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

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