Quotes by : Alexander Chee

PhD, MFA, self-taught—the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue....

Liz Benedict, a teacher of mine at Iowa, is the person who introduced me to James Salter's work.

I resented the idea of being talented. I couldn’t respect it — in my experience, no one else did.....

The secret to being a rider in the hippodrome wasn't just that you must be agile, or that you must be....

And I would tell him, as we rise into the air, The curse is not that we cannot choose our Fates.The curse,....

My fascination with women's clothes began very early. My mother was a very fashionable woman. She also....

After his sisters were taken away, the Japanese occupying force sent my grandfather to Imperial Schools.....

Sappho isn't really meant to be read. It's meant to be sung and there were dances for the songs, also.....

Lilliet Berne, La Generale, newly returned to Paris after a year spent away, the Falcon soprano whose....

I could stand before him, be in his arms as I was just then, and still be lost to him, some phantom of....