Quote

His dreams had always been Houdiniesque: they were the dreams of a pupa struggling in its blind cocoon, mad for a taste of light and air.

Michael Chabon

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Michael Chabon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 24
Author
Columnist
Essayist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Television Producer
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Leon Chaim Bach
Malachi B. Cohen
August Van Zorn
Taste
Dreams
Struggle
Cocoon
Dream
Cocoons
Light
Struggling
Always
Mad
Blind
Air

More quotes by Michael Chabon

Image
There was something unmistakably exultant about the mess that Rosa had made. Her bedroom-studio was at once the canvas, journal, museum, and midden of her life. She did not “decorate” it she infused it.
Michael Chabon
Image
Every golden age is as much a matter of disregard as of felicity.
Michael Chabon
Image
The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.
Michael Chabon
Image
I knew that I shouldn’t have, but I did it all the same and there you have my epitaph, or one of them, because my grave is going to require a monument inscribed on all four sides with rueful mottoes, in small characters, set close together.
Michael Chabon
Image
[My dad] didn't do much apart from the traditional winning of bread. He didn't take me to get my hair cut or my teeth cleaned he didn't make the appointments. He didn't shop for my clothes. He didn't make my breakfast, lunch, or dinner. My mom did all of those things, and nobody ever told her when she did them that it made her a good mother.
Michael Chabon
Image
Every generation loses the Messiah it has failed to deserve.
Michael Chabon
Image
No he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.
Michael Chabon
Image
So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.
Michael Chabon
Image
She was a natural blonde, with delicate hands and feet, and in her youthful photographs one saw a girl with mocking eyes and a tragic smile, the course of whose life would conspire in time to transpose that pair of adjectives.
Michael Chabon
Image
With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.
Michael Chabon
Image
... and because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second.
Michael Chabon
Image
In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time.
Michael Chabon
Image
A father is a man who fails every day.
Michael Chabon
Image
I said, “I need to hear something that’s going to save my life.” Re: Selecting songs from a jukebox.
Michael Chabon
Image
That's why school was invented - to give your parents some peace and quiet during the day.
Michael Chabon
Image
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.
Michael Chabon
Image
When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely... Having a big family solves that problem.
Michael Chabon
Image
It took Marvel Comics years to begin to put together any worthwhile superheroines. The first crop was, to a gal, embarrassingly disappointing. They had all the measly powers that fifties and sixties male chauvinism could contrive to bestow on a superwoman.
Michael Chabon
Image
That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.
Michael Chabon
Image
... But he believed that every great love was in some measure a terrible mistake.
Michael Chabon