Victoria Chang Quotes

I'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up.

Sometimes I feel like I'm on top of the world, and other mornings I feel like crap.

I've read a lot more than most of the people that I know, except for one of my really close friends reads way more than I do.

As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to write poetry.

I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read.

I've always done things that were good for me, whether they were viewed as being as prestigious or whatever.

The whole process of getting a book published is just part of the process. The last of the process that I enjo

I definitely have favorite books by favorite poets, but poets' books also vary. I could like some books, but not like another book.

I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.

I think I love humor in poetry, but not that slapstick cheap easy humor, but that uncomfortable, "did she say that out loud?" kind of humor.

I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.

Having children can be such a gift, but it can be a crushing experience for a certain kind of mom. And I am that certain kind of mom.

There's so much stuff being written! Every year, how many books come out? I can't keep up, and I read a lot. It's amazing.

People who are too uptight make me nervous.

My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left.

Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.

I think e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before.

I've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.

I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.

I think my way of being "funny" is just saying things that people think but have learned not to say, whereas, I haven't learned not to say them.

It took me awhile to not be ashamed to be a poet in the business environment, and to be a business person in the poet environment.

I think being a poet, period, is isolating.

I can't help but go against the grain, I suppose it is in my fabric to be a rule-breaker.

For the most part, it's a world of artists that are very in their own heads.

I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither here nor there.