Latest Dan Chaon Quotes from Interviews

• I feel like I go back and forth between being fairly fatalistic and really more hopeful about the possibilities of things changing. And will see how that goes in this election cycle. That will probably strongly affect how fatalistic I am.

  Dan Chaon

  Hopeful, Things Change, Election

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I love to write when I feel like everybody else is asleep and when I feel like the world is kind of empty in some ways. I find, oddly enough, that I write about loneliness and isolation a lot.

  Dan Chaon

  Loneliness, Writing, World

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't think anybody deals well with tragedy or grief, but maybe my characters are particularly bad at it. Which is why I love them.

  Dan Chaon

  Grief, Character, Thinking

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I guess I've been blessed with insomnia because I do a lot of my writing at night. Because I don't sleep as much as I probably should, I have that extra time to write weird stories and think odd thoughts.

  Dan Chaon

  Blessed, Writing, Sleep

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call "contemporary headline horror," stuff that is true crime or for one reason or another catches our attention in the media, those strange cases that we end up obsessing about. I'm always influenced by weird anecdotes and news. And, you know, lastly, probably things that have happened to me in my own life.

  Dan Chaon

  Attention, Strange, Horror

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• A novel requires a certain kind of world building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see. I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.

  Dan Chaon

  World, Kind, Mystery

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Writing short stories was kind of like I was cheating the whole time, in some way. I went back and forth between writing the novels and sort of sneaking out to work on stories occasionally. These stories were written over the last 10 years or so, as I was taking breaks from the novels I've written.

  Dan Chaon

  Cheating, Writing, Kind

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I've always been a horror movie fan, since I was a kid. And I was also a really scared kid. I was easily scared of the dark. One of the ways I would try and get away from my fear of the dark was to pretend like the monsters were my friends.

  Dan Chaon

  Kids, Dark, Trying

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm working with fragments a lot of the time and the connective tissue isn't there yet. I think of it the way comics work. You have a block here and a block here, and there's this white space in between. Somehow your mind makes the leap to connect those two blocks. Finding a way to trick your mind into connecting those blocks is one of the fun things for me about writing. You can have those leaps that will emerge into something, if you're lucky.

  Dan Chaon

  Fun, Block, Writing

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I also have just my own limits about stuff. I'm not interested in writing graphically about sexual assault for example. I feel like the stuff that I'm fascinated by is the stuff that's part of the public imagination of what horror is. The bleakness is a different issue. I think that just stems from my personality. I wish that I offered a little more glimmer of hope sometimes.

  Dan Chaon

  Writing, Thinking, Imagination

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Dan Chaon

  Libro, Pensamiento, Largo

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The thing that made me turn more towards writing was realizing how hard it was going to be to get a singular vision on film and how much more control I would have if I were writing novels.

  Dan Chaon

  Writing, Vision, Realizing

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There are all kinds of strange threads in American culture, and places where sympathy is extended and places where it isn't, and places where outrage is extended and places where it's not. It's this constantly shifting barrel of eels.

  Dan Chaon

  Culture, Strange, Kind

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• You know, the biggest indicator of where you live is your income. If you live in this suburb you make this much money, and if you live in that suburb, you make that much money, and if you don't have any money you live where you're allowed to live.

  Dan Chaon

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Falling In Love, Book, Fiction

  Interview with Molly Antopol, therumpus.net. September 15th, 2009.

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

  Dan Chaon

  Kids, Thinking, Stills

  Interview with Molly Antopol, therumpus.net. September 15th, 2009.

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

  Dan Chaon

  Teacher, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Molly Antopol, therumpus.net. September 15th, 2009.

• Maybe it's because I grew up during the MTV generation, but to me a perfect song is one I can imagine a music video to, a song that can take you into a dream.

  Dan Chaon

  Dream, Song, Mtv

  Interview with Molly Antopol, therumpus.net. September 15th, 2009.

• I know a lot of people don't listen to music when they're writing because it distracts them, but for me it's almost a way to get into the self-hypnotic state that I need to be in to write.

  Dan Chaon

  Escritura, Yo, Personas

  Interview with Molly Antopol, therumpus.net. September 15th, 2009.

• You can recognize in your own reading habits what writers are doing that works and what doesn't. I'm becoming much more aware of that after reading a decade of student stories.

  Dan Chaon

  Reading, Stories, Becoming

  Interview with Molly Antopol, therumpus.net. September 15th, 2009.

• I started out as a poet who primarily wanted to write about image and moment. Over the years I've been trying to teach myself how to do plot and scene. My first story collection had the most issues with the plotlessness, and when I was writing my second collection I was teaching myself how to make things happen.

  Dan Chaon

  Teaching, Writing, Years

  Interview with Molly Antopol, therumpus.net. September 15th, 2009.

• La trama y la escena siguen siendo lo más difícil para mí, aunque creo que son los componentes básicos de lo que hace que una historia funcione.

  Dan Chaon

  Block, Thinking, Plot

  Interview with Molly Antopol, therumpus.net. September 15th, 2009.

• I'd read an enormous amount but had spent so much time in my own head that I didn't have extensive social skills. Suddenly I was in this world where I was surrounded by these incredibly polished and wealthy kids who had gone to prep schools, and I felt daunted by them. I don't think people were aware of how full of anxiety I was... For a long time I felt like I was living in a place where I shouldn't have been.

  Dan Chaon

  Escuela, Niños, Pensamiento

  Interview with Molly Antopol, therumpus.net. September 15th, 2009.

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

  Dan Chaon

  Writing, Scary, Sexuality

  Interview with Molly Antopol, therumpus.net. September 15th, 2009.

• The kind of person I find myself interested in is a cross between being very emotionally complex and very immature. That's what I felt I was like when I was younger.

  Dan Chaon

  Immature, Kind, Crosses

  Interview with Molly Antopol, therumpus.net. September 15th, 2009.

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