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.
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.
The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids. - Dan Chaon
The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
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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