American - Author | May 24, 1963 -
That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.
Michael Chabon
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It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections.
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It is unusual for Joe to be that way, but that's what interested me.
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It was fun. That was something I came to fairly late.
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I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.
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I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel.
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Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.
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People keep saying, 'Oh, you're getting all these great reviews, that must make you really happy.' I guess it does, but mostly it's just a relief.
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It's good to have it over with. I worked on it a long time, and I didn't know what people were going to think of it. Would people like it? Would they buy it? So far it's been doing pretty well.
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That was all very nice of them. They didn't have to do anything because I wasn't officially involved at all.
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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.
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I have a deadline. I'm glad. I think that will help me get it done.
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