Michael Chabon Quotes About Lying
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The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at ever conscious moment its victim—even if he or she writes at dawn, or in the middle of the afternoon—feels like a person lying in a sweltering bedroom, with the window thrown open, looking up at a sky filled with stars and airplanes, listening to the narrative of a rattling blind, an ambulance, a fly trapped in a Coke bottle, while all around him the neighbours soundly sleep.
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But the first lie in the series is the one you make with the greatest trepidation and the heaviest heart.
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Writers, unlike most people, tell their best lies when they are alone.
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In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time.
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Misogyny comes naturally to a young man in his late teens; it is a function of the powerful homosocial impulses that flower along Fraternity Row, that drove the mod movements of the middle sixties and late seventies, that lie at the heart of every rock band formed by men of that age.
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