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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Above the wrist? Or below the wrist? — 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

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

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

worry knitting inside of him. — Dan Chaon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Maybe love, like suffering, is relative. — Dan Chaon

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

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

Plot was always secondary in my mind. — Dan Chaon

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