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All novels are sequels influence is bliss.
Michael Chabon
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Michael Chabon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 24
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Leon Chaim Bach
Malachi B. Cohen
August Van Zorn
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I'm never going to be a Tom Clancy. And I wouldn't really want to be - not that I have anything against him, and I wish him continued success - because that's not why I'm writing novels. I'm doing it because I have to. I feel like I have to, anyway.
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He was a fugitive, lurking soul, James Leer. He didn't belong anywhere, but things went much better for him in places where nobody belonged.
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So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.
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When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, 'In everything but sexual preference.
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Not only would I never want to belong to any club that would have me for a member--if elected I would wear street shoes onto the squash court and set fire to the ballroom curtains.
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As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep.
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Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir.
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All the preparation in the world doesn't avail you if you can't make that imaginative leap and put yourself in the position of the characters you've created, to imagine what it's like to be somebody else.
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No he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.
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