Michael Chabon Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

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

  Michael Chabon

  Character, Knowing, Giving

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

  Michael Chabon

  Giving Up, Hypocrisy, Meat

• 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. If a writer doesn't give away secrets, his own or those of the people he loves, if he doesn't court disapproval, reproach and general wrath, whether of friends, family or party apparatchiks... the result is pallid, inanimate, a lump of earth.

  Michael Chabon

  Pain, Party, Wrath

  "The Writing Life" by Michael Chabon, www.washingtonpost.com. July 16, 2000.

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

  Michael Chabon

  School, Giving, Parent

  "Michael Chabon’s Vinyl Draft". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September, 2012.

• What smells strongly of crap to one generation - Victorian penny dreadfuls, the music of the Archies, the Lone Ranger radio show, blaxploitation films of the seventies - so often becomes a fruitful source of inspiration, veneration, and study for those to come, while certified Great and Worthy Art molders and fades on its storage rack, giving off an increasingly powerful whiff of naphthalene.

  Michael Chabon

  Art, Powerful, Inspiration

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