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.
A lot of time, with stories, I'll start out with a title and try to dream myself into the story that it evokes - a kind of subconscious exercise in w… - Dan Chaon
A lot of time, with stories, I'll start out with a title and try to dream myself into the story that it evokes - a kind of subconscious exercise in w…
- 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… - 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…
In the end, there probably isn't much difference between being in love and acting like you're in love. - Dan Chaon
In the end, there probably isn't much difference between being in love and acting like you're in love.
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
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.
Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future. - Dan Chaon
Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.
Fiction is fun because you get to steal an identity and try to make it authentic. - Dan Chaon
Fiction is fun because you get to steal an identity and try to make it authentic.
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
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.
There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything. - Dan Chaon
There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything.
Sometimes he thinks that if he could only trace the path of his life carefully enough, everything would become clear. The ways that he screwed up wou… - Dan Chaon
Sometimes he thinks that if he could only trace the path of his life carefully enough, everything would become clear. The ways that he screwed up wou…
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