170 Quotes by Dan Chaon

If no one knows you, then you are no one.

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

I've never been able to sleep very much, even when I was a kid. I used to hate being forced to lay in bed in the darkness, and just shifting in bed and staring at the shadows.

Identity issues are hardwired into the way I think about character - it's almost as if I can't get away from them even if I want to.

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

You can't tell people how to feel when they read your work. You can only hope to connect.

There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything.

The circumstances of life-the events of life-the people around me in life-do not make me the way I am. They reveal the way I am.

You can go on like this for a very long time, and no one will notice. You keep thinking you’re going to hit some sort of bottom, but I’m here to tell you: There is no bottom.