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Dan Chaon quotes: That night I sat up writing in my diary writing to Big Me: 'I hope you are alive ' I wrote. 'I hope that I don't die before you are

That night I sat up writing in my diary writing to Big Me: 'I hope you are alive ' I wrote. 'I hope that I don't die before you are able to read this.

Dan Chaon quotes: I tend to like order in almost every other aspect of my life, but for me, the process of writing is really chaotic and decadent and indulgent.

I tend to like order in almost every other aspect of my life, but for me, the process of writing is really chaotic and decadent and indulgent.

Dan Chaon quotes: My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died.

My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died.

Dan Chaon quotes: I think we're always in some ways writing to the teachers who gave us early love.

I think we're always in some ways writing to the teachers who gave us early love.

Dan Chaon quotes: The two of you stood there, side by side, and the tectonic plates of your lives began to shift and resettle, continents separating.

The two of you stood there, side by side, and the tectonic plates of your lives began to shift and resettle, continents separating.

Dan Chaon quotes: It's always terrible when you realize that you've married the wrong book.

It's always terrible when you realize that you've married the wrong book.

Dan Chaon quotes: The type of person who will always be your friend, for as long as you can stand to keep disappointing her.

The type of person who will always be your friend, for as long as you can stand to keep disappointing her.

Dan Chaon quotes: Above the wrist? Or below the wrist?

Above the wrist? Or below the wrist?

Dan Chaon quotes: It is not like a premonition of death. It is as if she died a long time ago, and she just now remembered it.

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 quotes: Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story work.

Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story work.

Dan Chaon quotes: A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.

A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.

Dan Chaon quotes: worry knitting inside of him.

worry knitting inside of him.

Dan Chaon quotes: If no one knows you, then you are no one.

If no one knows you, then you are no one.

Dan Chaon quotes: 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.

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 quotes: In the end, there probably isn't much difference between being in love and acting like you're in love.

In the end, there probably isn't much difference between being in love and acting like you're in love.

Dan Chaon quotes: I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.

I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.

Dan Chaon quotes: On the seat beside him, in between him and his father, Ryan's severed hand is resting on a bed of ice in an eight-quart Styrofoam cooler.

On the seat beside him, in between him and his father, Ryan's severed hand is resting on a bed of ice in an eight-quart Styrofoam cooler.

Dan Chaon quotes: You really romanticize the white-trash period of your life,' Rain once said to me, which I thought was a little hurtful but perhaps true.

You really romanticize the white-trash period of your life,' Rain once said to me, which I thought was a little hurtful but perhaps true.

Dan Chaon quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.

Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.

Dan Chaon quotes: It had occurred to him that if the undead don't realize that they are dead, he might easily be one of them himself.

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 quotes: There's a lot of effort expended once you begin to completely trash your life. Sometimes, writing feels like this to me.

There's a lot of effort expended once you begin to completely trash your life. Sometimes, writing feels like this to me.

Dan Chaon quotes: I still think about the writers I loved when I was a kid.

I still think about the writers I loved when I was a kid.

Dan Chaon quotes: You could say that they were sweet, or you could say that they were something out of a horror movie.

You could say that they were sweet, or you could say that they were something out of a horror movie.

Dan Chaon quotes: One of the things I rarely do is write about sex.

One of the things I rarely do is write about sex.

Dan Chaon quotes: You can't tell people how to feel when they read your work. You can only hope to connect.

You can't tell people how to feel when they read your work. You can only hope to connect.

Dan Chaon quotes: Fiction is fun because you get to steal an identity and try to make it authentic.

Fiction is fun because you get to steal an identity and try to make it authentic.

Dan Chaon quotes: I was worried that, as a college teacher, if I wrote too much about intergenerational sex my students would be creeped out.

I was worried that, as a college teacher, if I wrote too much about intergenerational sex my students would be creeped out.

Dan Chaon quotes: You know what you learn when you study the legal system? Poor people pass down damage the way rich people pass down an inheritance.

You know what you learn when you study the legal system? Poor people pass down damage the way rich people pass down an inheritance.

Dan Chaon quotes: The people who control this country are the real gangsters. You know that, right? And if you play by their rules, you're nothing but their slave.

The people who control this country are the real gangsters. You know that, right? And if you play by their rules, you're nothing but their slave.

Dan Chaon quotes: The circumstances of life-the events of life-the people around me in life-do not make me the way I am. They reveal the way I am.

The circumstances of life-the events of life-the people around me in life-do not make me the way I am. They reveal the way I am.

Dan Chaon quotes: For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing.

For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing.

Dan Chaon quotes: In the basement of Sydney's new house is a little room that is about the size and shape of a coffin.

In the basement of Sydney's new house is a little room that is about the size and shape of a coffin.

Dan Chaon quotes: I guess," says Deagle, finally, "I'll just have a pack of Marlboro Lights. That's what I used to smoke when I was human.

I guess," says Deagle, finally, "I'll just have a pack of Marlboro Lights. That's what I used to smoke when I was human.

Dan Chaon quotes: I always worry that knowing too much about a novel or a story early on in writing will close it down - it feels fatalistic in some way.

I always worry that knowing too much about a novel or a story early on in writing will close it down - it feels fatalistic in some way.

Dan Chaon quotes: As mysterious as the part of himself that was chosen and loved by her, the part of himself that was there only when they were together.

As mysterious as the part of himself that was chosen and loved by her, the part of himself that was there only when they were together.

Dan Chaon quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Maybe love, like suffering, is relative.

Maybe love, like suffering, is relative.

Dan Chaon quotes: Writing about women's sexuality is very scary for me because I'm always afraid I'll get it wrong.

Writing about women's sexuality is very scary for me because I'm always afraid I'll get it wrong.

Dan Chaon quotes: 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.

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 quotes: She looked at me as if I might be one of them a spy from the world of the ignorant.

She looked at me as if I might be one of them a spy from the world of the ignorant.

Dan Chaon quotes: Plot was always secondary in my mind.

Plot was always secondary in my mind.

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

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