“I read a lot, but at the same time I'm not a particularly good or diligent or discriminating reader. I go through maybe close to a thousand or more books a year, but a lot of times I'll only read bits and pieces of any one individual text.” YearsBookIndividualBitsPiecesReaderThousandDiligentBits And Pieces Author:Dan Chaon
“You can't count on notoriety lasting very long, and there's no way to predict whether anyone will care about your books or you in three years, let alone ten or twenty.” WayYearsLongBookCareThreeTenTwentiesLastingThree YearsNotoriety Author:Dan Chaon
“I keep a daily journal of whatever weird thought comes into my mind, like when I had a dream I was in North Dakota in the middle of a blizzard and for some reason the Egyptian pyramids were there, too - that I was able to shuffle into the book.” MindBookReasonDreamAbleMiddleJournalPyramidsEgyptianI Had A DreamDakotaShuffleBlizzardNorth DakotaEgyptian Pyramids Author: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.” WayFirstsBookFallFictionConversationFalling In Love Author:Dan Chaon
“I think at a certain point the book develops a certain weight, or pressure. You've been pushing the rock up the hill for a long time and then it starts to roll and things do start to come together in the last two thirds.” ThinkingLongBookTogetherHills Author:Dan Chaon
