Chabon Novels Quotes

#1. My lesson from Soros is to start every meeting at my boutique by convincing everyone that we are a bunch of idiots who know nothing and are mistake-prone, but happen to be endowed with the rare privilege of knowing it.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. It's important to me in the creation of it because I figured as soon as I crossed that threshold into effects and loops it would completely undermine the premise of how I go about creating things physically, with the instrument.

Colin Stetson

#3. If you can't dance on it, it isn't coffee.

Nora Roberts

#4. Michael Chabon has long moved easily between the playful, heartfelt realism of novels like 'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh' and 'Wonder Boys' and his playful, heartfelt, more fantastical novels like 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' and 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union.'

Cathleen Schine

#5. 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

#6. People who have come from nothing and started their own business or opened up a whole new niche in a particular industry, they truly inspire me.

Benjamin Stone

#7. I go to Shenzhen, China, and am taken to a vast luxury spa with a hundred leather recliners and a hundred accompanying plasma screen televisions bolted to the ceiling.

Kevin Kwan

#8. My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.

Desmond Llewelyn

#9. It's not that marriage itself is bad; it's the people we marry who give it a bad name.

Terry McMillan

#10. I remember John walking on and starting to play, and my mouth sort of dropped open in disbelief at the power of the playing coming across the stage - and the technique! I've never, ever seen another drummer play quite the way he did.

Cozy Powell

#11. My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - In Corners - till a Day The Owner passed - identified - And carried Me away -

Emily Dickinson

#12. All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.

Michael Chabon

#13. Want to get more done? Keep meditation #1 on your to-do list.

Waylon H. Lewis

#14. The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality.

Criss Jami