I started to feel that I had a large problem: my comic book characters didn't exist, and none of my readers would have seen them. The Escapist existed only within the covers of this book.Quote by Michael Chabon
I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.Quote by Michael Chabon
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.Quote by Michael Chabon
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.Quote by Michael Chabon about city
It's about comic books, and in my greatly enlarged recent experience it's become clear that women have a very negative attitude toward comic books. They didn't grow up reading them, for the most part.Quote by Michael Chabon about books, attitude, experience
That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.Quote by Michael Chabon about writing, things
The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.Quote by Michael Chabon about books, fire, fire brigade, things, time, love
When I started working the Houdini vein, very quickly I realized that escapism is always a charge leveled against comics: why would one want to waste time reading them? It all belonged together.Quote by Michael Chabon about time
I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready.Quote by Geena Davis about americans, woman
So often people think, when they read an interview, that they're going to be touched by that person. The person is doing it because they're trying to sell something.Quote by Julie Christie about man, people, commerce
The '70s was a lost time for me. I looked at different religious or spiritual leaders. I read a lot of books with a Buddhist background.Quote by Julie Christie about books, time
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.Quote by Winston Churchill about being
What you do with it and things like that, but I basically chose this after I read it because I thought it was different and funny and unique and dark - things that I like to do.Quote by Danny DeVito about dark, things, thinking
Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.Quote by Winston Churchill about thinking, rightness
When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.Quote by Placido Domingo about artists
Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about enemies, nothing, soul
Well, reading is the worst thing in the world for me to do. I hate it.Quote by Eminem about hate, things, world
However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library.Quote by Richard Ernst about books, city, home
I knew the term Stepford Wife, and I knew what that meant. I never read the book, and I think before I started filming I watched the movie. I thought it was very dated.Quote by Glenn Close about wife, thinking