Iris Chang
Related DENIS LEARY NICHOLSON BAKER STIEG LARSSON CHAIM POTOK RIDLEY SCOTT I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to b... TED CHIANG STEVEN WRIGHT WILLIAM GIBSON I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I&#... O. R. MELLING LYDIA MILLET Now, I'm a failed political consultant. But sometimes fiction has a way of capturing people'... JOEL C. ROSENBERG SLOANE CROSLEY I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it... DANIEL HANDLER I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the ... JESS WALTER I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm d... UMBERTO ECO Whenever I see something that looks like it could be good - whether it's on vinyl, CD or cassett... WILL OLDHAM ALAIN DE BOTTON For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novel... DAVID GRANN JEAN M. AUEL GALE ANNE HURD JEAN M. AUEL ALAN ARKIN I'm a professional non-fiction reader, that's what I do. But in my 20s we had our own vampir... DEBORAH HARKNESS I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my fir... IRVIN D. YALOM There's a big difference between us. I write non-fiction, you write fiction. I write truths that tel... RICHARD PAUL EVANS I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve proble... ELEANOR CATTON It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guil... IRA GLASS I will tell you that I'm a bit of a snob. I love film, and I would like to work in film, and I&#... KELLY MASTERSON ANN HOOD Whenever you're dealing with something that's difficult to describe, that you can't get ... DIANA GALBADON FRANCINE RIVERS JOAN D. VINGE VICTORIA AVEYARD I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I lik... JOY FIELDING I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it... W. P. KINSELLA See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fic... JOHN SLADEK JAMES JOYCE 'Mars et Avril' is a science fiction film. It's set in Montreal some 50 years in the fut... MARTIN VILLENEUVE I think it's Jerry's masterful fiction writing. TIM LAHAYE DEYTH BANGER COLUM MCCANN ALICE MUNRO I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, ... SHARON OLDS I love historical fiction because there's a literal truth, and there's an emotional truth, a... JEWELL PARKER RHODES CONOR OBERST LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I... ASHLEY SCOTT LEONARD MLODINOW DENNIS LEHANE CYNTHIA BREAZEAL I think, when you are writing non-fiction, you feel there's an obligation to get it absolutely r... RONALD FRAME Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literar... L. E. MODESITT, JR. In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes... BEN MARCUS DONALD MILLER It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety i... RANDY ALCORN E.M. FORSTER KELLY SUE DECONNICK HILL HARPER NICOLAS CAGE I would love to work with Shilpa again. But it would have to be for 'Dill Mill Gayye (DMG)' ... KARAN SINGH GROVER I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly ... KAREN THOMPSON WALKER All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidd... PAOLO BACIGALUPI ISABEL ALLENDE Creative non-fiction is such a liberating genre because it allows the non-fiction writer, whether he... LEE GUTKIND TONY KUSHNER GARY SHTEYNGART If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'... DAKOTA FANNING JODI PICOULT JOHN UPDIKE BARRY EISLER KERRY WASHINGTON What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also ... TRACY KIDDER COREY TAYLOR I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting. N. K. JEMISIN KURT VONNEGUT I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, wh... JAMES CAAN I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud ... TAWNI O'DELL SANHITA BARUAH BRAD THOR GARY JOHNSON WILLIAM SHATNER JENNIFER EGAN I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even ... K'NAAN HELENA MATTSSON If you're somebody who writes songs or writes fiction, a writer that people pay for your opinion... JASON ISBELL I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I... NATHANIEL RICH JAMES HOWE There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction. CATHERINE JINKS ELIZABETH MOON When I'm not writing, I do a lot of research reading on the shape of civilization. Fiction can b... CAROLYN CHUTE I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. Whe... ANDREA BARRETT Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the ... GEORGE MURRAY I don't know if it's good or bad, but when I first started writing I imitated the narrative ... KEVIN WILSON WHIT STILLMAN I used to not even be able to order pizza on the phone because I was just so shy. I think that's... EVAN RACHEL WOOD MACKLEMORE I don't want to write soft, easy fiction; I want to write fiction that challenges. BRIAN A. MCBRIDE It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise. NANCY THAYER Whenever I write, I write what I find to be the way people are. I never use any symbolism at all, bu... CAROLYN CHUTE
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There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most ... IRIS CHANG Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class d... IRIS CHANG Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces. IRIS CHANG It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history. IRIS CHANG Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe. IRIS CHANG Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else... IRIS CHANG The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments o... IRIS CHANG If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an eco... IRIS CHANG It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out... IRIS CHANG Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerou... IRIS CHANG We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also t... IRIS CHANG I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent ... IRIS CHANG After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting becau... IRIS CHANG It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more a... IRIS CHANG When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. ... IRIS CHANG Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in ... IRIS CHANG I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space. IRIS CHANG I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself,... IRIS CHANG There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engag... IRIS CHANG They probably do have an Asian Barbie. IRIS CHANG I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills. IRIS CHANG Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, an... IRIS CHANG Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien. IRIS CHANG There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off chil... IRIS CHANG There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people star... IRIS CHANG The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion. IRIS CHANG The Committee of 100 commissioned a survey in which they found that Asian-American candidates are th... IRIS CHANG Often what is deeply offensive to Chinese-Americans that they are really well-represented in medicin... IRIS CHANG These episodes of racism occur in cycles. IRIS CHANG Some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minu... IRIS CHANG I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space. IRIS CHANG Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, an... IRIS CHANG The Japanese even forced fathers to rape their own daughters or sons their mothers, brothers their s... IRIS CHANG Men all across China are going to have trouble finding wives in just a few years. IRIS CHANG As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice. IRIS CHANG I'm far from being perfect but I've learned to recognize my mistakes and to be open for a change IRIS You keep thinking of someone while doing important jobs, you love him/her. IRIS IRIS APFEL IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writ... IRIS JOHANSEN I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' wr... IRIS JOHANSEN The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound... IRIS JOHANSEN I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader. IRIS JOHANSEN After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy...... IRIS JOHANSEN I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most peop... IRIS DEMENT If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music prov... IRIS DEMENT I've always written about things that cause me to feel something. IRIS DEMENT My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar! IRIS DEMENT Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come rea... IRIS DEMENT Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had. IRIS DEMENT Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in... IRIS DEMENT I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result o... IRIS DEMENT Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up w... IRIS DEMENT Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to... IRIS DEMENT I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and other... IRIS DEMENT I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else. IRIS DEMENT Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. 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SCHARMEL IRIS IRIS APFEL IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS APFEL IRIS APFEL IRIS APFEL It took the tenacity and spirit of thousands and thousands of women who worked in an unrelenting way... IRIS NELSON IRIS MURDOCH IRIS APFEL IRIS APFEL IRIS APFEL IRIS MURDOCH If your feet are firmly planted on the ground you'll never be able to dance. IRIS JOHANSEN IRIS APFEL IRIS APFEL IRIS APFEL IRIS APFEL IRIS APFEL I get a lot of inspiration from the audience feedback to our live shows. DONNIE IRIS IRIS MURDOCH IRIS APFEL IRIS MURDOCH IRIS APFEL The lights are all out everywhere. IRIS CHENAULT IRIS APFEL IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS APFEL IRIS MURDOCH IRIS APFEL IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS APFEL IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS APFEL IRIS APFEL IRIS MURDOCH IRIS APFEL Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereb... IRIS JOHANSEN IRIS MURDOCH IRIS APFEL IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS APFEL ...lace is formed from the absence of substance; it is imagined in the spaces between the threads. L... IRIS ANTHONY IRIS MURDOCH IRIS APFEL IRIS APFEL IRIS APFEL IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH Where you are,there I'll be.Make up your mind to it.You may not love me now bt you will.I'll see to ... IRIS JOHANSEN People were worried; they thought we were going to go to nuclear war when there was a conflict with ... IRIS WEINSHALL We find stuff all the time, but what's sort of eerie about this is that this is a bridge that thousa... IRIS WEINSHALL In attempting to minimize congestion, perhaps we were more cautious than we should have been. IRIS WEINSHALL It's not like we're putting this on eBay. IRIS WEINSHALL It's not uncommon for New Yorkers to walk a mile a day. IRIS WEINSHALL Little Charlie was delivered by a C-section and not expected to live. I'm a widow with no children .... IRIS TANNER I don't know if someone thought they were rescuing them from a hot car or what. I'm offering a rewar... IRIS TANNER It's very basic -- look for a dumpster that has stuff in it, climb in, and see what you can find. IRIS PEPPAR It's fun, it thwarts capitalism, and it pays directly in useful stuff instead of having that useless... IRIS PEPPAR We want to let people shop in peace and dignity. I don't want to be standing over people telling the... IRIS PEPPAR
I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice,... 
It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one... 
I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that ... 
A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about r... 
Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fic... 
I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I&#... 
I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction... 
Domestic realism has dominated the American marketplace for decades now. It leeches into literary fi... 
I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got ... 
I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised... 
Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is ficti... 
I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan. 
I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating t... 
NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just mons... 
I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand peop... 
I want to see Christian fiction speak to the hard and real issues that tear people's lives apart... 
Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or so... 
I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of maki... 
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of... 
If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. 
Very seldom in my fiction have I directly used the stories people have told me. I think ripping off ... 
I seem to turn out stories that violate the discipline of the short story form and don't obey th... 
I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret At... 
In the best works of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where e... 
I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I d... 
Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world. 
Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand. 
In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robo... 
I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or... 
A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that i... 
Gray space is fertile ground for fiction. When I can see both sides of an argument and feel strongly... 
I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction. 
Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's ... 
Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never... 
I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of... 
I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who re... 
I think the 'New York Times' reviews overall tend to overlook popular fiction, whether you&#... 
I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science ... 
I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influ... 
I like how people will post pictures of me with other women that I adore, hugging on red carpets, an... 
I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and ... 
I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see. 
To write is to reveal oneself.
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Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself. 
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down. 
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