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The ideal editor will hold you to the best of yourself in the piece.
— Alexander Chee
From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.
— Tony Hillerman
I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was!
— Alexander Chee
Writers aren't born, they're madefrom practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage. — Alexander Chee
The myth works to make the very real things people don't want to look at visible for them.
— Alexander Chee
The way some were entrapped into lives of prostitution, the way that something like marriage could rob them of their rights.
— Alexander Chee
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
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
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
Your health, when you have it, is invisible to you. I
— Alexander Chee
And the gods did not kill for hubris-for hubris, they let you live long enough to learn.
— Alexander Chee
This was my slender bridge to the future, and I stepped onto it as carefully as I could.
— Alexander Chee
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
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
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
Sorrow seemed to me to be more like a road wound through life
— Alexander Chee
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
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
When the earth opens up under your feet, be like a seed. Fall down; wait for the rain.
— Alexander Chee
Why was there never an opera that ended with a soprano who was free?
— Alexander Chee
With my family background - my parents were both activists - writing about culture and politics came naturally.
— Alexander Chee
Whenever people say a coincidence in a novel is implausible, I think, Do I have a story for you ...
— Alexander Chee
I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully.
— China Machado
I have lived for a long time inside a series of coincidences that most people would find implausible in a novel.
— Alexander Chee
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
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
