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Alexander Chee quotes: The ideal editor will hold you to the best of yourself in the piece.

The ideal editor will hold you to the best of yourself in the piece.

Alexander Chee quotes: I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was!

I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was!

Alexander Chee quotes: Writers aren't born, they're madefrom practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.

Writers aren't born, they're made
from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.

Alexander Chee quotes: The myth works to make the very real things people don't want to look at visible for them.

The myth works to make the very real things people don't want to look at visible for them.

Alexander Chee quotes: The way some were entrapped into lives of prostitution, the way that something like marriage could rob them of their rights.

The way some were entrapped into lives of prostitution, the way that something like marriage could rob them of their rights.

Alexander Chee quotes: A singer learned her roles for life - your repertoire was a library of fates held close, like the gowns in this closet, yours until your voice failed.

A singer learned her roles for life - your repertoire was a library of fates held close, like the gowns in this closet, yours until your voice failed.

Alexander Chee quotes: She wanted only to be feared. I wanted to be feared and loved. I didn't want everything she had as she stood onstage that night. I wanted more.

She wanted only to be feared. I wanted to be feared and loved. I didn't want everything she had as she stood onstage that night. I wanted more.

Alexander Chee quotes: To survive, much less succeed, I learned I could not give myself over to either pleasure or misery in excess. Whatever you felt was not important. To

To survive, much less succeed, I learned I could not give myself over to either pleasure or misery in excess. Whatever you felt was not important. To

Alexander Chee quotes: Your health, when you have it, is invisible to you. I

Your health, when you have it, is invisible to you. I

Alexander Chee quotes: And the gods did not kill for hubris-for hubris, they let you live long enough to learn.

And the gods did not kill for hubris-for hubris, they let you live long enough to learn.

Alexander Chee quotes: With my family background - my parents were both activists - writing about culture and politics came naturally.

With my family background - my parents were both activists - writing about culture and politics came naturally.

Alexander Chee quotes: She said this watching my eyes as if she were testing the edge of a blade on me. And so I made sure not to flinch.

She said this watching my eyes as if she were testing the edge of a blade on me. And so I made sure not to flinch.

Alexander Chee quotes: I've been told it's hard to write about singing. I didn't realize that going into it. I might not have tried if I knew!

I've been told it's hard to write about singing. I didn't realize that going into it. I might not have tried if I knew!

Alexander Chee quotes: It was said she mourned her beauty, which people still spoke of as of a vanished champion from another age. She had buried herself alive in public, on

It was said she mourned her beauty, which people still spoke of as of a vanished champion from another age. She had buried herself alive in public, on

Alexander Chee quotes: Sorrow seemed to me to be more like a road wound through life

Sorrow seemed to me to be more like a road wound through life

Alexander Chee quotes: she looked at me as if a horse had wandered into the hall, and in commanding it with her eyes, she could get it to return to its stable.

she looked at me as if a horse had wandered into the hall, and in commanding it with her eyes, she could get it to return to its stable.

Alexander Chee quotes: Each source that I read, I would look through the bibliography and the footnotes, and use that as a map for the next thing I would read.

Each source that I read, I would look through the bibliography and the footnotes, and use that as a map for the next thing I would read.

Alexander Chee quotes: When the earth opens up under your feet, be like a seed. Fall down; wait for the rain.

When the earth opens up under your feet, be like a seed. Fall down; wait for the rain.

Alexander Chee quotes: Why was there never an opera that ended with a soprano who was free?

Why was there never an opera that ended with a soprano who was free?

Alexander Chee quotes: Every now and then, you find a book that feels like it was keyed to your DNA.

Every now and then, you find a book that feels like it was keyed to your DNA.

Alexander Chee quotes: Whenever people say a coincidence in a novel is implausible, I think, Do I have a story for you ...

Whenever people say a coincidence in a novel is implausible, I think, Do I have a story for you ...

Alexander Chee quotes: I have lived for a long time inside a series of coincidences that most people would find implausible in a novel.

I have lived for a long time inside a series of coincidences that most people would find implausible in a novel.

Alexander Chee quotes: I was trying to make a novel about something no one wanted to read about into something they couldn't put down or look away from.

I was trying to make a novel about something no one wanted to read about into something they couldn't put down or look away from.

Alexander Chee quotes: her interest was not the beginning of a friendship but more of a measuring. She

her interest was not the beginning of a friendship but more of a measuring. She

Alexander Chee quotes: Ever since I'd been old enough to know about virtue in a woman, it had seemed like a bull's-eye painted on my head in rouge.

Ever since I'd been old enough to know about virtue in a woman, it had seemed like a bull's-eye painted on my head in rouge.

Alexander Chee quotes: I wanted to prepare for a life of sudden transformations, of enemies singing at you across the stage dressed in the costume of a lover.

I wanted to prepare for a life of sudden transformations, of enemies singing at you across the stage dressed in the costume of a lover.

Alexander Chee quotes: This was my slender bridge to the future, and I stepped onto it as carefully as I could.

This was my slender bridge to the future, and I stepped onto it as carefully as I could.

Alexander Chee quotes: None of the young women who wanted her position knew what her position was.

None of the young women who wanted her position knew what her position was.