Dan Chaon Quotes
Dan Chaon Quotes
Dan Chaon Quotes:-Discover insightful quotes by Dan Chaon, the renowned author known for his gripping storytelling and exploration of the human psyche. From his acclaimed novels to his captivating short stories, Chaon's words delve deep into themes of loss, identity, and the complexities of relationships. Immerse yourself in his thought-provoking quotes that resonate with raw emotion and offer profound glimpses into the human experience.
"The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids." ~ Dan Chaon
"I think we're always in some ways writing to the teachers who gave us early love." ~ Dan Chaon
"Writing a short story is a little like walking into a dark room, finding a light and turning it on. The light is the end of the story." ~ Dan Chaon
"You can go on like this for a very long time, and no one will notice. You keep thinking you're going to hit some sort of bottom, but I'm here to tell you: There is no bottom." ~ Dan Chaon
"Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future." ~ Dan Chaon
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"You can't count on notoriety lasting very long, and there's no way to predict whether anyone will care about your books or you in three years, let alone ten or twenty." ~ Dan Chaon
"Maybe love, like suffering, is relative." ~ Dan Chaon
"Identity issues are hardwired into the way I think about character - it's almost as if I can't get away from them even if I want to." ~ Dan Chaon
"I've never been able to sleep very much, even when I was a kid. I used to hate being forced to lay in bed in the darkness, and just shifting in bed and staring at the shadows." ~ Dan Chaon
"Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective." ~ Dan Chaon
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"A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see." ~ Dan Chaon
"I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them." ~ Dan Chaon
"I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth." ~ Dan Chaon
"So this was what it felt like to lose yourself. Again. To let go of your future and let it rise up and up until finally you couldn't see it anymore, and you knew that you had to start over." ~ Dan Chaon
"In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in love with books." ~ Dan Chaon
"At a certain point, you must be able to slip loose. At a certain point, you found that you had been set free. You could be anyone, he thought. You could be anyone." ~ Dan Chaon
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"It had occurred to him that if the undead don't realize that they are dead, he might easily be one of them himself." ~ Dan Chaon
"Maybe it's because I grew up during the MTV generation, but to me a perfect song is one I can imagine a music video to, a song that can take you into a dream." ~ Dan Chaon
"Fiction is fun because you get to steal an identity and try to make it authentic." ~ Dan Chaon
"It is not like a premonition of death. It is as if she died a long time ago, and she just now remembered it." ~ Dan Chaon
"I know a lot of people don't listen to music when they're writing because it distracts them, but for me it's almost a way to get into the self-hypnotic state that I need to be in to write." ~ Dan Chaon
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"A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking." ~ Dan Chaon
"You can't tell people how to feel when they read your work. You can only hope to connect." ~ Dan Chaon
"Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory." ~ Dan Chaon
"I have long admired Caroline Leavitt's probing insight into people, her wit and compassion, her ability to find humor in dark situations, and conversely, her tenderness towards characters." ~ Dan Chaon
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