15 Quotes by Alexander Chee about Writing
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When I am gripped with despair, when I think I might stop, I speak to my dead. Tell them a story. What am I doing with this life? They hold me accountable. I let them make me bolder or more modest or louder or more moving, but I ask them to listen, and then write.
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There's a reason that whenever fascists come to power, the writers are among the first to go to jail.
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...the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure and success.
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My first novel was not the first one I started. It was the first one I finished.
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Yes, everything's been written, but also, the thing you want to write, before you wrote it, was impossible to write. Otherwise it would already exist. Your writing makes it possible.
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A novel, should it survive, protects what a missile can't.
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