Michael Chabon Author Quotations

Joe is the hero and Sammy is the sidekick. That's how I feel about it.

I'm such a devoted web user, myself, that it feels important to me to have a presence, to be a part of that whole collective enterprise.

I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it.

That was all very nice of them. They didn't have to do anything because I wasn't officially involved at all.

The 'Talk of the Town' was really that in the 1940s: it was all about New York, it was only about New York, and it was about people.

I like giving readers an opportunity to get a hold of me in that way and to read things I've written which might disappear otherwise.

I was a big comics reader when I was a kid, from about six to fifteen. I collected them, I read them, I even created my own characters in comics.

It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections.

It was fun. That was something I came to fairly late.

It is unusual for Joe to be that way, but that's what interested me.

It's good to have it over with. I worked on it a long time, and I didn't know what people were going to think of it. Would people like it? Would they buy it? So far it's been doing pretty well.

Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story.

I completely lost interest in comics. I sold my collection. I didn't go back to them for fifteen years - until after Wonder Boys.