Quotes About Michael Chabon

Jesus Fucking Christ," she says with that flawless hardpan accent of hers. It is an expression that always strikes Landsman as curious, or at least as something that he would pay money to see.

For me the act of marriage has proven, like most of the other disastrous acts of my life, little more than a hedge against any future lack of good material.

His coat] emitted an odor of bus station so desolate that just standing next to him you could feel your luck changing for the worse.

He looked like a man dangerously addicted to the correction of mistaken people.

Gibson Goode to Archy: You're just being stubborn now. Stubbornness in the service of a mistaken notion is a vanity and a sin.

You read my Cosmo? I read all of your magazines. I took all the love quizzes and pretended I was you answering the questions. How did I do? You cheated, I said.

Alcohol as helpful to the making of scapegoats as mud to the shaping of golems.

Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can result when they are revealed.

there was a general impression of imminent catastrophe and red lipstick.

His bare shoulders were ivory-yellow and densely freckled. The freckles, like his hair and eyelashes, were the color of a Nilla wafer.

my grandmother would freak you the fuck out.

You know I have no patience with nonsense, said the Northeast's leading wholesaler of chattering windup mandibles.

I'd wanted to work in a true, old-fashioned bookshop, crammed with the mingled smells of literature and Pittsburgh blowing in through the open door. Instead I'd got myself hired by Boardwalk Books.

I said that I had heard curiosity could be harmful, in particular to cats

Smoke had left the eye sockets of houses with black eyebrows of astonishment. Cats

Her tangle of wild black curls had enacted medusa feats in zero gravity.

The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a writer who's determined to break down genre barriers. He's done amazing things.

I wrote a fan e-mail to Michael Chabon.

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

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