Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silenc...
A source page for quotes linked to Victoria Chang.
“the way that memory gets after someone has died and starts walking”
“dying lasts forever until it stops”
“My mother did so much for me. What I returned to her were empty containers.”
“I can't help but go against the grain, I suppose it is in my fabric to be a rule-breaker.”
“Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.”
“I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.”
“I think e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before.”
“I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.”
“I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.”
“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 love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read.”
“For the most part, it's a world of artists that are very in their own heads.”