"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."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Alexander Chee

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“It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.”
“To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane. With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness in an inhuman world.”

Source : Maxine Kumin (2000). “Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry”
“I think my goal was just to do comedy, honestly. It still is. Whatever form that took or takes, it doesn't matter.”

Source : Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2013.
“Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.”
“You think you're the only one?" Theo said. "Everyone has scars. We just don't all wear them on the outside.”
“The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human beings first... and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter, and able to give people a clean drink of water. I don't want images of starving babies at the breast in my mind. I want that to change. And if I want that, I had better do something about it.”
“If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think, "I want to make this movie," it'll never get made.”

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